Stolen Valor Arrests update

[Dustbuster]

Usually these dirt bags get away with their impostor acts,but here's three that didn't

From the American Legion magazine:

 

http://burnpit.us/2015/04/trio-stolen-valor-phonies 

 

Back in November there was a sting operation run by the Texas Rangers (law enforcement, not the AL Baseball Team) that worked like a champ:

Police set up a sting operation Saturday to award a man they say was falsely claiming to be an active-duty Navy SEAL with a "firearm of appreciation" before arresting him on charges of impersonating a ranking officer.

Weatherford-Parker County special investigators worked with the Texas Rangers to arrest Carlos Felipe Luna-Gonzalez, 29, three days before Veterans Day.

Gonzalez has posted photos on social media wearing a Navy dress uniform while dining at a local coffee shop. The uniform had a Lieutenant Junior Grade Rank, displayed a Navy SEAL Trident, Jump Wings, and other various awards.

The 29-year-old had also told local law enforcement officials he was stationed at Naval Air Station Carswell as he awaited a medical discharge for injuries he claimed he suffered in Africa on a Navy SEAL operation.

After they arrested Carlos, he predictably posted bail, and then promptly ran away to Puerto Rico.  

But Texas isn't happy with that, and they plan on getting him:

Sheriff Fowler asked Puerto Rico police for help. Monday night, he got word they had his man.

"They wanted to know if we would extradite. They wanted to know in 10 minutes. They got their answer in eight," Fowler grinned. "He couldn't even shine the SEALs' boots, as far as I'm concerned."

Fowler's service included duty aboard two aircraft carriers....

Sheriff Fowler said Gonzalez did serve a brief stint in the Navy, and received a general discharge.

The sheriff said he heard from a lot of vets who were especially angry about the SEAL trident and Purple Heart on the uniform.

The theft charge was only a misdemeanor. Jumping bond on the misdemeanor is a felony.

"I'm going to bring him back — one way or the other," Sheriff Fowler said. "He picked the wrong county, I'll tell you that."

 

 

And another case made me even madder, because this guy is actually a Command Sergeant Major, currently serving in the US Army.  These next two come from Jonn Lilyea:

 

Another active duty member of the military, Command Sergeant Major Perry T. MacNeill of the Headquarters Battery, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Air Defense Artillery, has been sentenced for wearing unauthorized insignia, decoration, badge, ribbon, device or lapel button, in violation of Article 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice, and of one specification of making a false official statement, in violation of Article 107 of the code. The Senior NonCommissioned Officer was sentenced to receive a letter of reprimand, reduction to the E-7 pay grade (sergeant first class) and forfeitures of $500 per month for 10 months. From Guardian of Valor;

According to the charges he wore both the Ranger Tab and the Pathfinder Badge wrongfully and without authority on multiple occasions: on or between March 4, 2011, and Feb. 28, 2014. It also says he submitted an official record to the Centralized Selection List Board for the fiscal year Active Component and U.S. Army Reserve Active Guard Reserve Brigade/Battalion Command Sergeant Major and Key Billet Sergeant Major Board, a falsified enlisted record brief stating he had graduated from Ranger School in 1994.

According to his bio, he had two Bronze Star Medals (for Merit), five Meritorious Service Medals, four ARCOMs and six Army Achievement Medals and a member of the Order of Saint Barbara, but I guess that wasn't good enough. The rest of your career will rightfully suck, SFC.

 

 

 

Last but not least

 

 

There's this fellow in Washington State, who goes by a number of names, but his real name is Hugh Clarence Johnson. Some of his "also known as" monikers are; Hubert Clarence Johnson aka Hugh Clearence Johnson aka Hugh Clarence Johnson aka Hugh Johnson aka Hugh Jonson aka Clarence H. Jonson aka C H Johnson aka Hugo C. Johnson. He was arrested a few months ago for practicing holistic medicine without a license, according to the Whidbey Island, Washington News-Times;

Former Navy physician C. Hugh Jonson was arrested Wednesday by Oak Harbor police. Another provider at the holistic medicine clinic, Arely Jimenez-Beckius, was also arrested for practicing medicine without a license Feb. 16. [...] Jonson also said he was a prisoner of war during Vietnam, a Green Beret, and had received both the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Silver Star.

Well, he's been known in the stolen valor community for quite some time. The old POW Network had this to say about him;

Claims POW, Claims Army SF, Claims Navy Capt, Claims 2 DFC*, Claims MD, Claims psychologist, Claims law degree, Claims law enforcement officer Kimberling County NC. He also has claimed to have been in Baghdad during the first gulf war and through the auspices of the CIA was personally tracking the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein. He claimed to know exactly where he was at all times (with the exception of Saturdays and Sundays). He also claims that sometime in the 60's he was on a secret mission to extract a German scientist from China. He said this scientist had been kidnapped by the Chinese for his nuclear technology and his job was to get him out and whisk him to an undisclosed island somewhere in the Pacific, which he did without any problem.... of course.

The Whidbey News-Timesdid their own research on him;

Under a slightly different spelling, Hugh Clarence Johnson was convicted of multiple felonies in 1995 in Sonoma County Superior Court, Calif. Those crimes were associated with practicing medicine without a license, according to court documents and news reports. Oak Harbor Police Detective Mike Bailey confirmed that the Hugh Clarence Johnson convicted in California is the same man who was arrested in Oak Harbor. Johnson was charged with 47 felonies in Sonoma County, “including fraud, forgery and possession firearms,” according to 1995 reports published in the Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, Calif.

The News-Times also notes that there is a C. Hugh Johnsonwho is listed as a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross for service in Vietnam in 1968, but it's not this guy;

  

I'll bet that Good Conduct Medal was the focus of his entire career. He couldn't have earned the DFC because he wasn't even in the Navy at the time that the other Mr. Johnson earned the medal. He has a criminal record that goes back to 1975 - mostly for pretending to be something that he's not. Notice in the picture, that he decided he deserved the Navy Cross, too.

[Caster]

Burn 'em!

[LagerHead]

These guys all remind me of a feminine hygiene product one might use on a summer's eve and the bag in which it came.

[Caster]

These guys all remind me of a feminine hygiene product one might use on a summer's eve and the bag in which it came.

 

 

Yeah but at least that serves a worthy purpose.  These guys not so much.  I think R. Lee Ermey might say, the best part these fellas ran down ............   and ended up as a brown stain on a mattress.