{"id":59518,"date":"2015-04-26T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59518"},"modified":"2015-04-26T11:29:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T15:29:56","slug":"keith-chandler-back-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59518","title":{"rendered":"Keith Chandler back in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53645\">Last year we wrote<\/a> about this Keith Chandler fellow who had forged his military documents in order to get Purple Heart license plates that he didn&#8217;t earn during his brief and tumultuous career in the Army. Well, he finished his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58843\">90 days in jail<\/a>, I guess, but now he faces having his five years of probation vacated, so <a href=\"http:\/\/wkbn.com\/2015\/04\/24\/kinsman-man-at-center-of-purple-heart-controversy-in-trouble-again\/\">he&#8217;s looking at six years<\/a> as a guest of the state;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chandler, who was working for a roofing company, approached the Crossroads Community Church and told them they needed a new roof.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>When the church pastor told Chandler their insurance company would not accept the $20,000 claim, police said Chandler called the insurance company claiming to be a maintenance man for the church and submitted the claim himself. Police said Chandler also signed the pastor\u2019s name on the contract in order to perform the work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe actually forged a piece of paperwork and he was making a claim on his own, acting on behalf of them and he had no business doing that,\u201d Madison Towship Police Det. Elizabeth Kirk said.<\/p>\n<p>The pastor helped police set up a sting to catch Chandler in action and police arrested Chandler when he showed up to do some work on the roof.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stolen Valor doesn&#8217;t happen in a vacuum. They&#8217;re always guilty of something else besides a forged document or undeserved medals &#8211; it&#8217;s all part of the pathology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year we wrote about this Keith Chandler fellow who had forged his military documents in &hellip; <a title=\"Keith Chandler back in the news\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59518\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keith Chandler back in the news<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59518","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=59518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}