{"id":68337,"date":"2016-10-07T12:05:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T16:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68337"},"modified":"2016-10-07T12:05:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T16:05:05","slug":"fort-campbell-soldiers-sell-military-surplus-on-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68337","title":{"rendered":"Fort Campbell soldiers sell military surplus on the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/fort-campbell-soldiers-allegedly-sold-military-equipment-ebay-article-1.2820187\"> New York Daily News<\/a> reports that Michael Barlow, Jonathan Wolford, Kyle Heade, Alexander Hollibaugh, Dustin Nelson and Aaron Warner, Fort Campbell soldiers all, have been arrested for selling surplus items on Ebay  to buyers in the United States as well as Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Lithuania, Moldova, Malaysia, Romania and Mexico.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The equipment was classified by the Defense Department as \u201cDEMIL D,\u201d meaning it is not allowed to be sold and is meant to be destroyed by the military.<\/p>\n<p>The soldiers sold a sight for an M203 grenade launcher, as well as parts of M240 or M249 machine guns. They also offered body armor, night vision goggles and \u201csensitive communications equipment,\u201d court papers say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two civilians, John Roberts and Cory Wilson, are also charged. Lucky for them they weren&#8217;t selling magazines for scary black rifles that had a greater capacity than ten rounds, or Ebay might have stopped them earlier.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;eBay worked collaboratively with law enforcement agencies, providing them with the information necessary to support their case,&#8221; eBay executives said in a statement. &#8220;eBay has clear policies on what can and can\u2019t be listed across various categories, and we have dedicated teams that proactively and reactively remove listings that are not permitted to be sold on our marketplace.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article says that they sold more than a $1 million worth of stuff and they&#8217;re all looking at five years each for the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who sent us the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Daily News reports that Michael Barlow, Jonathan Wolford, Kyle Heade, Alexander Hollibaugh, Dustin &hellip; <a title=\"Fort Campbell soldiers sell military surplus on the web\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68337\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fort Campbell soldiers sell military surplus on the web<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68337","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=68337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}