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AnotherPat sends us the sad tale of SFC Darryle Robert Bankhead, 57, who was happily augmenting his nest egg with pilfered expended brass casings he sold for scrap. An amazingly bad career move, seems Big Army frowns on such behavior. He did make bank though, right before he was caught just prior to retirement. Of course that’s all gone now; instead of retirement after honorable service in the Army and reserves of 36 years, he gets three + years in Club Fed and three years probation. Dick stepping with hockey skates. He also managed to drag a first lieutenant into the mix. What a guy, here’s the story:<\/p>\n
Guillermo Contreras<\/strong>
\nA former senior noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserves was sentenced Monday to 33 months in federal prison for stealing scrap brass shell casings from Camp Bullis and selling it to recycling centers.<\/p>\nDarryle Robert Bankhead, 57, who was retiring as a sergeant 1st class, used some of the $117,775 he stole over a year to buy a food truck for a business he ran on the side, Bankhead\u2019s BBQ, according to information disclosed at his sentencing.<\/p>\n
Senior U.S. District Judge David Ezra rejected a request from Bankhead\u2019s lawyer, Tim Molina, for probation. Molina argued, in part, that Bankhead served honorably in the Army, then the reserves, for 36 years. He had been a drill sergeant, recruiter and operations NCO and said he was in the process of retiring.<\/p>\n
The judge ordered Bankhead to serve three years of federal supervision after his release, to pay back the money, and to be more honest and open when probation officers want to examine his financial affairs in the future.<\/p>\n
Ezra issued his mandate upon learning that Bankhead had not disclosed to the FBI that he had bought the food truck a day after agents interviewed him about what he did with the money from the stolen brass, and was not up front about his financials with probation officers. Ezra chided him for obstructing justice, which was an aggravating factor in his sentence.<\/p>\n
According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Charlie Jenkins, Bankhead abused his position of trust. Bankhead told staff at Camp Bullis that he would take the scrap casings to nearby Camp Stanley when the Air Force\u2019s recycler had broken and the brass was piling up at Camp Bullis. Instead, between May 31, 2017 and May 1, 2018, he and another soldier sold the brass to a recycling facility at least 16 times , according to the pair\u2019s plea deals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Read the rest here: AP News.<\/a> It’s a must-read just for the location he was stealing the brass from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"