{"id":63094,"date":"2015-12-06T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63094"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:53","slug":"james-waldby-cornered-in-willoughby-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63094","title":{"rendered":"James Waldby Cornered in Willoughby, Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63095\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63095\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Waldby-12-04-2015-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"Waldby 12-04-2015\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Waldby-12-04-2015-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Waldby-12-04-2015-272x333.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Waldby-12-04-2015.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>An alert reader in Willoughby, Ohio spotted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38925\">James Waldby<\/a> when he checked into a hospital in the community. He sent us the video of his confrontation. Our reader was escorted from the hospital room by security. He notified the FBI, the local police and us before he went to the room.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q63y_R6dbyg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Waldby has been pulling this scam of his across the country &#8211; we&#8217;ve seen him do it in Sacramento, California, Salt Lake City, Utah and Reno, Nevada in recent months. He gets on a train and after a while, he fakes a heart attack. They stop the train and drop him at a hospital. He tells them that he&#8217;s a veteran and the VA or Tricare or someone will pick up his expenses. He spends a couple of days in the hospital and when he&#8217;s discharged, he tries to get donations from local veteran charities. They put him up in a hotel and give him money for food. After a while, they start googling his name and come to TAH. Waldby gives them excuses like that&#8217;s not him, that we spelled his name wrong when we got his records, blah, blah, blah. Then he lights out for his next victims. He has ripped off motorcycle clubs, the VFW, and, in Ohio he tried to rip off a military insignia vendor. Luckily, she found us first.<\/p>\n<p>You might remember that Waldby has a really bad forged DD214 which claims that he was a Master Sergeant in the 3rd Ranger Battalion and that he earned two Distinguished Service Crosses, two Silver Stars, two Bronze Stars, and four Purple Hearts. Actually he was in the Army for a few days more than a year, he was booted while stationed in Hawaii as a private and his only award was the Army Service Ribbon. he has no deployments. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=38927\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38927\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/James-Michael-WaldbyDD-214a-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"James Michael WaldbyDD-214a\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/James-Michael-WaldbyDD-214a-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/James-Michael-WaldbyDD-214a-249x333.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/James-Michael-WaldbyDD-214a.jpg 626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=38928\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38928\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Michael-James-Waldby-FOIA-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"Michael James Waldby FOIA\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Michael-James-Waldby-FOIA-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Michael-James-Waldby-FOIA-260x333.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Michael-James-Waldby-FOIA.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our reader says that he has an OIF patch on his vest that was in his hospital room. The worst part of the whole thing is that he has dragged a dog into the whole mess, claiming that it&#8217;s a service dog.<\/p>\n<p>The story in Ohio is much like it has been everywhere else. Police don&#8217;t want to get involved saying there is no crime, regardless of the fact that have been crimes across the country. The FBI doesn&#8217;t think that it&#8217;s worth their time. The media is reticent about getting involved. Waldby has been getting away with his little scam for years from coast-to-coast. North Carolina to California. He leaves behind a general mistrust of veterans.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a member of a Facebook group of Waldby&#8217;s victims, so we&#8217;re able to apply police reports and complaints to a situation as soon as we find his location, but, police don&#8217;t seem too excited about arresting the little sociopath.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED 12-16-2015:<\/strong> He just blew through Buffalo with the same scam at a hospital. they caught on and put him in a cab to the AMTRAK, so he&#8217;s in the wind again. His family is near Rochester, so I guess he&#8217;s going home for the holidays.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED 01-17-2016<\/strong> The first Waldby sighting of the New Year. He&#8217;s in Philadelphia, we&#8217;re not sure which hospital.<br \/>\nUPDATE: He&#8217;s at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals. I&#8217;ve called to warn them.<br \/>\n<strong>ADDED 02-17-2016<\/strong>: A good weekend to be in Poughkeepsie, NY, I suppose, because that&#8217;s where he is today.<br \/>\n<strong>ADDED 3-14-2016:<\/strong> He spent this weekend in Crouse-irving Memorial Hospital in Syracuse, NY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An alert reader in Willoughby, Ohio spotted James Waldby when he checked into a hospital in &hellip; <a title=\"James Waldby Cornered in Willoughby, Ohio\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63094\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">James Waldby Cornered in Willoughby, Ohio<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63094","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\/63094","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=63094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}