{"id":67717,"date":"2016-08-31T09:52:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T13:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67717"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:30:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:30:23","slug":"carlos-felipe-luna-gonzalez-phony-seal-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67717","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Felipe Luna-Gonzalez; phony SEAL sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We first wrote<\/a> about Carlos Felipe Luna-Gonzalez nearly two years ago when he was arrested in a sting operation while he was pretending to be a wounded SEAL officer in Dallas\/Fort Worth, Texas. A local gun shop owner pretended to present him with a rifle in appreciation for his non-existent service. The local police arrested him for theft when he accepted the rifle. Then Luna fled to Puerto Rico. He was extradited last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today we get the news that he was sentenced on Monday<\/a> after pleading guilty to theft, failure to appear and bail jumping.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old Luna-Gonzalez, who\u2019s an ex-seaman apprentice, was free on bond when he fled to Puerto Rico. He was later extradited.<\/p>\n

Luna-Gonzalez received 16 months in state jail for theft, plus three years in prison for failure to appear and bail jumping.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From KVUE<\/a>;<\/p>\n

An investigation found Gonzalez was given an early general discharge from the Navy as an enlisted seaman apprentice, and had never been a commissioned officer or a SEAL, nor had he earned a purple heart or faced active combat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was a tip from the public to Texas Ranger Anthony Bradford, an Army veteran
\nwith a son in the Navy, that influenced the sting operation. It helped that Luna presented an altered DD214.<\/p>\n

He wasn’t prosecuted for Stolen Valor, but it was his Stolen Valor that brought him to the attention of local law enforcement. A lesson for the prosecutors out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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