{"id":79227,"date":"2018-05-03T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79227"},"modified":"2018-05-03T10:34:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T14:34:40","slug":"jose-pazos-confronts-veterans-and-patriots-citadel-incorporated-panhandlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79227","title":{"rendered":"Jose Pazos confronts Veterans and Patriots Citadel Incorporated panhandlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79228\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79228\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Jose-Pazos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"261\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79228\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"UTF-8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/portableplayer\/?cmsID=481556551&#038;videoID=2vIxz4V7kqz9&#038;origin=nbcmiami.com&#038;sec=news&#038;subsec=local&#038;fullWidth=y\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jose Pazos confronted some panhandlers in Miami when the former Marine saw them in Army uniforms representing the organization that calls themselves Veterans and Patriots Citadel Incorporated. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/Veteran-Confronts-Men-Wearing-Military-Style-Uniforms-in-Miami-Stolen-Valor-Case-481551271.html\">NBC affiliate<\/a>, their license to solicit has been suspended by the State of Florida;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Florida Department of Agriculture suspended the authority for Veterans and Patriots Citadel Incorporated to collect donations as a charity on the day of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans and Patriots Citadel Incorporated told NBC 6 that it was the state&#8217;s fault their license was suspended, but Florida said the group did not file the correct paperwork to keep its license.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/florida\/miami-dade\/viral-video-shows-heated-confrontation-between-veteran-and-charity-group?utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=snd&#038;utm_content=wplg10\">Local 10 News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pazos, who served two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, said he confronted the two men after he witnessed them collecting donations in full uniform at Bird Road and Southwest 67th Avenue in southwest Miami-Dade County.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am 99.9 percent sure these guys are scam artists,&#8221; Pazos said.<\/p>\n<p>Pazos confronted the two men last week when he spotted them when he was on his way to work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re not doing anything for veterans and that&#8217;s what infuriated me,&#8221; Pazos said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Pazos confronted some panhandlers in Miami when the former Marine saw them in Army uniforms &hellip; <a title=\"Jose Pazos confronts Veterans and Patriots Citadel Incorporated panhandlers\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79227\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jose Pazos confronts Veterans and Patriots Citadel Incorporated panhandlers<\/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":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-vet-charities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79227","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=79227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}