{"id":54602,"date":"2014-08-17T09:51:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T13:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54602"},"modified":"2014-08-17T09:51:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T13:51:47","slug":"soldier-arrested-for-attempting-sales-to-cartels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54602","title":{"rendered":"Soldier arrested for attempting sales to cartels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/aug\/15\/fort-knox-soldier-dad-accused-of-trying-to-sell-mi\/\">the Washington Times<\/a>, Private First Class Luis Rafael Infantes, 21, and his father, Pedro Luis Infantes, 47 were indicted by Florida grand jury for trying to engineer the sales of night vision devices to Mexican drug dealers in a sting operation. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20140815\/NEWS06\/308150038\/FBI-Soldier-teamed-his-father-sell-stolen-equipment-drug-gangs\">Army Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The FBI identified the younger Infantes as a Fort Knox, Kentucky, supply sergeant. An Army Human Resources Command spokesman said Infantes is a private first class assigned to 19th Engineer Battalion at Knox \u2014 an assignment he began July 28, personnel records show.<\/p>\n<p>The pair allegedly tried to sell 17 thermal-imaging monoculars, rifle-cleaning kits and other stolen military equipment for $153,500 through an intermediary \u201caffiliated with Mexican drug trafficking organizations,\u201d the release states. Their connection, whom the FBI says met with Pedro Infantes, was actually a law enforcement informant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They&#8217;re both facing a few decades of incarceration each and I think that&#8217;s being exceptionally generous &#8211; the sale, had it happened, probably would have cost a lot of people their lives by giving smugglers a night vision capability along our frontier with Mexico.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Washington Times, Private First Class Luis Rafael Infantes, 21, and his father, Pedro &hellip; <a title=\"Soldier arrested for attempting sales to cartels\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54602\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soldier arrested for attempting sales to cartels<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54602","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=54602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}