{"id":58339,"date":"2015-02-20T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58339"},"modified":"2015-02-19T15:35:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T20:35:12","slug":"coast-guard-nco-fakes-his-suicide-indicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58339","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard NCO fakes his suicide, indicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wvmetronews.com\/2015\/02\/19\/three-indicted-for-allegedly-faking-u-s-coast-guard-members-death\/\">West Virginia Metro News<\/a> tells the story of 33-year-old Larry Shelby who was indicted, along with his wife and a friend, for a hoax and fraud. Apparently, the Coast Guardsman thought he had released some sort of information and the Coast Guard was investigating the incident, so he did what the rest of us would do, if we were completely stupid &#8211; he faked his own suicide. His wife joined him in the fraud and hid him in his basement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Coast Guard spent more than $100,000 looking for him. In addition to the U.S. Coast Guard, Maryland state police, the National Park Service, the Berkeley County sheriff\u2019s department, Harpers Ferry police, Martinsburg police, Chesapeake Search &#038; Rescue K-9 and Mid-Atlantic D.O.G.S., Inc. were part of the search.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2014, according to federal prosecutors, Larry Shelby returned to his Martinsburg home where he hid out until June. At first, Ihlenfeld said, the kids did not know their father was hiding out in the family basement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually, (Larry and Karen Shelby) surprised the children and advised their three children that their father was actually alive, but they instructed them not to tell anyone that he was in fact living in their house,\u201d Ihlenfeld said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, none of that worked and now he faces 16 years in prison while  his wife and his friend are looking at more than ten years in prison, you know, after they&#8217;re presented with their &#8220;Parents of the Year&#8221; Award. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia Metro News tells the story of 33-year-old Larry Shelby who was indicted, along with &hellip; <a title=\"Coast Guard NCO fakes his suicide, indicted\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58339\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coast Guard NCO fakes his suicide, indicted<\/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":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58339","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=58339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}