{"id":82249,"date":"2018-10-10T07:56:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T11:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82249"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:42:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:42:59","slug":"officer-once-fired-for-lying-resigns-after-military-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82249","title":{"rendered":"Officer once fired for lying resigns after military service questioned."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Skidmark sends us the story about a San Antonio police officer who won his job back last year after being indefinitely suspended that has now resigned from the department amid new allegations and is now facing criminal charges.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; width: 80%; height: 80%; left: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xmk2fF6X9x4?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Questions arise about Martin&#8217;s service in U.S. Marine Corps<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In the arbitration ruling it was stated Martin &#8220;spent approximately 4 years honorably serving in the United States Marine Corps,&#8221; which he followed up with a stint in the US Secret Service &#8220;as a highly trained member on the presidential protective detail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In March of this year, the Defenders received an anonymous letter which raised questions about Martin&#8217;s military service.<br \/>\nThe letter stated: &#8220;This is not true. I find it interesting and quite upsetting that someone would lie about serving in the Marine Corps, but apparently this is just what officer Martin did because I can assure you he was not a Marine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A search of Martin&#8217;s official Texas Commission on Law Enforcement records revealed more troubling information.<\/p>\n<p>Records show Martin began working for the Wilson County Sheriff&#8217;s office in January 2017, during his suspension from SAPD, and that he has continued to be employed there for a year and 8 months, which overlapped his service at SAPD when he was returned to duty.<\/p>\n<p>SAPD said it did not approve Martin to work for an outside agency.<\/p>\n<p>The Defenders have asked the Marines and the U.S. Secret Service for Martin&#8217;s service records which have not yet been provided. A\u00a0person who works in the records department, however,\u00a0confirmed Martin joined the Marines in July 1997, but said it appeared he never graduated from boot camp.<\/p>\n<p>The Defenders have tried to contact\u00a0Martin through his attorney for a comment, but he has not responded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/defenders\/sapd-officer-resigns-amid-internal-investigation-facing-criminal-charges-for-perjury\">LINK HERE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stolen Valor is only the tip of the iceberg.\u00a0 Some guy used to say that around here a lot.\u00a0 Thanks to Skidmark for the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skidmark sends us the story about a San Antonio police officer who won his job back &hellip; <a title=\"Officer once fired for lying resigns after military service questioned.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82249\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Officer once fired for lying resigns after military service questioned.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":82251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,227,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-police","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82249","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}