{"id":74222,"date":"2017-08-25T10:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T14:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74222"},"modified":"2017-08-25T10:15:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T14:15:28","slug":"ryan-w-lowden-phony-coast-guardsman-say-he-was-only-trying-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74222","title":{"rendered":"Ryan W. Lowden; phony Coast Guardsman says he was only trying to help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=73863\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73863\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/phony-coast-guardsman-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/phony-coast-guardsman-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/phony-coast-guardsman-500x322.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/phony-coast-guardsman.jpg 712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Green Thumb sends us another story from <a href=\"http:\/\/missoulian.com\/news\/local\/article_2c53e882-ff7e-5b17-8430-fa40912da712.html\">The Missoulian<\/a> about Ryan W. Lowden, the fellow in Montana who is charged with impersonating a Coast Guardsman on Flathead Lake. He says that he was only trying to help and that he never gave anyone the impression that he worked for the Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People reported that Lowden drove in front of their boats while on his Jet Ski, which some said was equipped with flashing lights. Some of those who were allegedly stopped said Lowden was wearing a jacket with Coast Guard markings on it and that he presented them with a badge number. In some cases, they said he asked to see their life preservers.<\/p>\n<p>Lowden claimed that none of that happened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He denied to police that he wore any jacket with Coast Guard markings, but they searched his abode and found a jacket stashed in a pit in the crawl space beneath the home. So things aren&#8217;t looking good for him. Even though he has flashing lights on his Jet-Ski, he says that he&#8217;s never used them.<\/p>\n<p>There is a Coast Guard Auxillary on Flathead Lake staffed with volunteers, however, Lowden, who claims that he was in Coast Guard a few years ago was never a member on the unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Thumb sends us another story from The Missoulian about Ryan W. Lowden, the fellow in &hellip; <a title=\"Ryan W. Lowden; phony Coast Guardsman says he was only trying to help\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74222\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ryan W. Lowden; phony Coast Guardsman says he was only trying to help<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coast-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74222","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=74222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}