{"id":78354,"date":"2018-03-20T08:30:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T12:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78354"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:46:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:46:23","slug":"rodrigo-ibarra-bowman-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78354","title":{"rendered":"Rodrigo Ibarra Bowman; stolen valor fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mankatofreepress.com\/news\/local_news\/man-charged-with-defrauding-customer\/article_49aabac8-199e-11e8-9462-fbc11e3f0f2e.html\">Earlier this year<\/a>, Rodrigo Ibarra Bowman was charged with defrauding a customer who had a flat tire. Bowman worked for Riggs Roadside Assistance and Tires Plus in Mankato, Minnesota. After Bowman took care of the customer&#8217;s tire, he kept the credit card number and used it to have work done on his own vehicle. The customer was surprised to see his $285 bill jump to more than $2000. So, Bowman was charged with felony credit card fraud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernminnesotatoday.com\/stolen-valor-mankato-man-lies-about-being-a-veteran-to-receive-benefits\/\">On further scrutiny<\/a>, it was discovered that Bowman went to the local Veterans&#8217; Services office pretending to be a Marine;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the complaint, Rodrigo Ibarra Bowman was wearing a U.S. Marine Corps ring when went to the Blue Earth County Veteran\u2019s Service Office last year seeking assistance. Police say Bowman claimed that he had served three combat tours in Iraq and he boasted of being involved in secret, dark ops missions during his service as a Marine.<\/p>\n<p>During the visit, Bowman applied for help from the Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans. As part of that process, he was immediately given a $50 gift card for fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities checked with the Marine Corps and they had no record of him ever being enlisted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hear that there&#8217;s room under the jail for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Rodrigo Ibarra Bowman was charged with defrauding a customer who had a flat &hellip; <a title=\"Rodrigo Ibarra Bowman; stolen valor fraud\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78354\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rodrigo Ibarra Bowman; stolen valor fraud<\/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":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78354","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=78354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}