{"id":65257,"date":"2016-04-14T07:47:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T11:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65257"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:10","slug":"tony-magsam-phony-gunnery-sergeant-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65257","title":{"rendered":"Tony Magsam, phony Gunnery Sergeant arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=39683\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39683\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Magsam-speed-racer-250x333.jpg\" alt=\"Magsam speed racer\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-39683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Magsam-speed-racer-250x333.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Magsam-speed-racer-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Magsam-speed-racer.jpg 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>About two years ago we wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39541\">Anthony Magsam<\/a> who was pretending to be a Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant and an Iraq War veteran in Philadelphia. He wore a pretty little motorcycle vest with a Combat Infantryman Badge and a Bronze Star, but the NPRC says that he had no service;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=39682\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39682\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Magsam-FOIA1-299x333.jpg\" alt=\"Magsam FOIA1\" width=\"299\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-39682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Magsam-FOIA1-299x333.jpg 299w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Magsam-FOIA1-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Magsam-FOIA1.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He had been a Philly cop until it was discovered that <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/2011-08-01\/news\/29838864_1_fiu-gun-parts-vincent-testa\">he stole weapons parts<\/a> from the police department. He was subsequently fired, but otherwise, unpunished. Hack Stone sends us the news that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/20160414_Former_cop_arrested_in_gun-theft_scandal.html\">he was finally arrested yesterday<\/a>, after about seven years since the theft was discovered.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anthony Magsam&#8217;s arrest on charges of theft, receiving stolen property, and obstruction of administrative law came one week after his former commander, Lt. Vincent J. Testa, committed suicide prior to a scheduled meeting with prosecutors about the case.<\/p>\n<p>Magsam, 35, was released from custody Wednesday following an arraignment. Attempts to reach him for comment late Wednesday were not successful. No lawyer was listed on his initial charging document.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Magsam doesn&#8217;t like the picture at the top of this post &#8211; he complained to a previous service provider that it was copyrighted so we lost the blog for a day while our lawyers straightened the problem out with the provider. We enjoy this extra ration of karma that he&#8217;s catching these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About two years ago we wrote about Anthony Magsam who was pretending to be a Marine &hellip; <a title=\"Tony Magsam, phony Gunnery Sergeant arrested\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65257\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tony Magsam, phony Gunnery Sergeant arrested<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65257","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\/65257","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=65257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}