{"id":49395,"date":"2014-06-01T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=49395"},"modified":"2014-05-31T19:00:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T23:00:23","slug":"maryland-couple-arrested-for-phony-fundraising-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49395","title":{"rendered":"Maryland couple arrested for phony fundraising scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=49396\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49396\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Amanda-Ashley-Miskimon-and-Matthew-David-Michalski-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"Amanda Ashley Miskimon and Matthew David Michalski\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Amanda-Ashley-Miskimon-and-Matthew-David-Michalski-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Amanda-Ashley-Miskimon-and-Matthew-David-Michalski-453x333.jpg 453w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Amanda-Ashley-Miskimon-and-Matthew-David-Michalski.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Chief Tango sends a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/anne-arundel\/glen-burnie\/bs-md-donation-fraud-20140531,0,2539560.story\">Baltimore Sun<\/a> which reports that Amanda Ashley Miskimon and Matthew David Michalski were raising money for a vharity called &#8220;Support Our Troops Foundation&#8221; outside a Giant supermarket in Glen Burnie, MD when police arrested them;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Officers arrested the couple but did not find the jar with the money.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview, they told police they had posed as fundraisers before and were trying to support a drug habit.<\/p>\n<p>Michalski, 25, disputed the charges, saying said been collecting money for two years and donating the funds to local veterans groups. He added that he and his girlfriend, Miskimon, 21, do not do drugs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were actually trying to do the right thing,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They were busted when a donor called the number on their flier and their cell phone began ringing. Of course, they say it was only coincidental, that someone else happened to be calling their drug-addled asses at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends a link from the Baltimore Sun which reports that Amanda Ashley Miskimon and &hellip; <a title=\"Maryland couple arrested for phony fundraising scheme\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49395\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maryland couple arrested for phony fundraising scheme<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}