{"id":79073,"date":"2018-04-25T10:41:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T14:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79073"},"modified":"2018-04-25T10:41:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T14:41:36","slug":"gunners-mate-2nd-class-aaron-a-booker-charged-with-grenade-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79073","title":{"rendered":"Gunner\u2019s Mate 2nd Class Aaron A. Booker charged with grenade theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/sailor-charged-with-possessing-20-hand-grenades-stolen-from-uss-pinckney-1.523813\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>, Gunner\u2019s Mate 2nd Class Aaron A. Booker stole 20 MK3A2 concussion hand grenades from a locker aboard USS Pinckney, a San Diego-based Navy destroyer. Only 15 sailors had access to the locker containing 60 grenades. An inventory early last year revealed the loss of 20 grenades at about the same time that Booker was transferring to a new assignment at Great Lakes.<\/p>\n<p>Booker denied involvement in the loss to NCIS investigators;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> About a month later, on April 20, 2017, the grenades turned up \u2014 or most of them.<\/p>\n<p>An off-duty Orange County sheriff\u2019s deputy was driving on Interstate 15 in northwest Arizona and spotted a backpack leaning on a guardrail on the side of the road. The black backpack was standard-issue military with \u201cGM2 Booker\u201d handwritten on an inside tag.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona highway patrol officers and the FBI found inside 18 grenades with the same lot number as the missing explosives.<\/p>\n<p>In a second interview, Booker admitted that the bag was his and that he\u2019d taken the route, but said the backpack had been stolen from him about a year ago after he\u2019d left it in the Pinckney\u2019s armory. He stated he was especially upset about the theft because the bag had a GM pin on the front that was hard to replace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then he called NCIS and told them that the two missing grenades made their way to Tijuana with a motorcycle club.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested yesterday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Stars &#038; Stripes, Gunner\u2019s Mate 2nd Class Aaron A. Booker stole 20 MK3A2 concussion &hellip; <a title=\"Gunner\u2019s Mate 2nd Class Aaron A. Booker charged with grenade theft\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79073\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gunner\u2019s Mate 2nd Class Aaron A. Booker charged with grenade theft<\/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":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79073","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=79073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}