{"id":73042,"date":"2017-06-27T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73042"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:48:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:48:01","slug":"david-demulle-phony-vietnam-veteran-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73042","title":{"rendered":"David DeMulle; phony Vietnam veteran sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Almost three years ago<\/a> we wrote about David DeMulle, a fellow posing as a Vietnam veteran in Sunland-Tujunga, California. He self-published a local newspaper called “The Foothills Paper” in which he spread tales of his derring-do.<\/p>\n

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It seems that in 2015, he solicited his readers to sell him their firearms which he claimed that he would resell and use the money to get aid to Haiti earthquake victims. DeMulle claimed that he had a federal firearms license so the transactions would be legal. Yeah, no, he is a felon prohibited from handling a firearm. <\/p>\n

According to the LA Daily News<\/a>, two law enforcement officers saw his ad for the proposed aid, so they sold him two weapons and then got a warrant to search his home where they found twenty-three other guns and over a thousand POUNDS of ammunition. <\/p>\n

DeMulle bought the ammunition from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department;<\/p>\n

The court filings also allege that in 2002 DeMulle purchased thousands of rounds of surplus small-arms ammunition from the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department. He won a bid through his company, the Organization for Strategic Studies, and the ammunition was sold to him.<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors said after an investigation, it was found that there was no evidence a background check was done and that the Sheriff\u2019s Department \u201cmistakenly\u201d handed over ammunition to DeMulle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, the upshot is that DeMulle, the 75-year-old valor thief, was sentenced to 41 months in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition last month, after pleading guilty late last year. Because stolen valor is just a symptom of wider criminal behavior;<\/p>\n

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The LA Times<\/a> asked him for a comment;<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you want to know other than I was railroaded by a biased judge and a corrupt\u201d prosecutor, DeMulle wrote in response to an email seeking comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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