{"id":61128,"date":"2015-07-31T09:30:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T13:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61128"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:34:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:34:13","slug":"lloyd-keith-mitchell-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61128","title":{"rendered":"Lloyd Keith Mitchell sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=59049\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-59049\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Lloyd-Keith-Mitchell-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lloyd Keith Mitchell\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Lloyd-Keith-Mitchell-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Lloyd-Keith-Mitchell-266x333.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Lloyd-Keith-Mitchell.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We discussed 66-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59048\">Lloyd Keith Mitchell<\/a> back in April when he was arrested for presenting a forged DD214 in order to get a veterans&#8217; driver license. He claimed to be a retired admiral and he made false statements to police investigators, so he was charged with perjury, too, on top of the forged document. <\/p>\n<p>Mitchell had also given a talk about his phony career to the Coquina Crossing Veterans Association &#8211; they had given him a red, white and blue afghan out of appreciation for his nonexistent service.<\/p>\n<p>Well, a judge in Florida sentenced him yesterday according to <a href=\"https:\/\/historiccity.com\/2015\/staugustine\/news\/florida\/traynor-hands-down-harsh-sentence-in-stolen-valor-case-53759\">Historic City News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Judge Traynor ordered Mitchell to return a red, white and blue afghan given to him by the Coquina Crossing Veterans Association after that presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell was sentenced during the Thursday proceedings to serve a 36-month probation for his crimes, was ordered to write a letter of apology to the Coquina Crossing Veterans Association, to complete 100 hours of community service, and to pay $500 to the Wounded Warrior Project and to pay $500 to Clyde E. Lassen State Veterans Nursing Home on SR-16.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/staugustine.com\/news\/local-news\/2015-07-30\/st-johns-county-man-makes-amends-after-posing-us-navy-veteran#.Vbtw__nvcZx\">St. Augustine Record<\/a> he had claimed some medals, too;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mitchell submitted a military discharge form which said he was a recipient of the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star, the Silver Star and the Vietnam Medal of Honor, according to the Sheriff\u2019s Office to obtain a veteran status on his driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n<p>But when detectives contacted the NCIS at Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, they learned Mitchell never served in the Navy, nor is there is a record of him serving in any military branch. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dude was an airline pilot, I guess he felt guilty that he&#8217;d been a draft dodger, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We discussed 66-year-old Lloyd Keith Mitchell back in April when he was arrested for presenting a &hellip; <a title=\"Lloyd Keith Mitchell sentenced\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61128\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lloyd Keith Mitchell sentenced<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61128","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=61128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}