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Stolen Vests Sold to Drug Dealers

By TChris, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Tue Mar 29, 2005 at 02:52:06 PM EST
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by TChris

Free enterprise at its worst:

Three airmen have been arrested in an alleged scheme to steal 35 bulletproof vests from Moody Air Force Base and sell them to drug dealers for $100 each.

Police discovered the plot when they arrested a drug dealer who was wearing one of the stolen vests. Eighteen of the vests have been recovered.

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    Stolen Vests Sold to Drug Dealers | 14 comments (14 topical)
    Re: Stolen Vests Sold to Drug Dealers (none / 0) (#1)
    by Sailor on Tue Mar 29, 2005 at 04:10:11 PM EST
    "Free enterprise at its worst" More like stupid criminal of the week.

    Re: Stolen Vests Sold to Drug Dealers (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Mar 29, 2005 at 04:52:36 PM EST
    Support the Troops....

    Re: Stolen Vests Sold to Drug Dealers (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Mar 29, 2005 at 05:07:46 PM EST
    Third world ideals inside the once great Air force...oh well are the airmen u.s., civilians? "not joking" up to 20 percent of people who are now in our military are from other parts of the world. note when i was in the military it was 5 percent, 40 years ago. but many people have no idea of how many drug dealers do have military Equipment/gear of all type.

    Re: Stolen Vests Sold to Drug Dealers (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Mar 29, 2005 at 05:11:16 PM EST
    Mr. Dawes, Huh?

    Re: Stolen Vests Sold to Drug Dealers (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Mar 29, 2005 at 07:09:12 PM EST
    Freedom vests!

    Re: Stolen Vests Sold to Drug Dealers (none / 0) (#6)
    by Che's Lounge on Tue Mar 29, 2005 at 08:49:52 PM EST
    Now THOSE were bad apples. The other ones were following orders.

    Re: Stolen Vests Sold to Drug Dealers (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Mar 29, 2005 at 09:07:04 PM EST
    I thought they were running low on those over there, since Rummy accidentally forgot to order enough back in 2002 before starting the war. Maybe they were hocking them to buy deserter plane tickets? Great comment Che. I can see smoke coming out of wingnut ears trying to reconcile it: War on Terror...Does Not Compute....War on Drugs....Does Not Compute....Support Our Troops....Does Not Compute...Drug Money Supports Terror...Does Not Compute...zzzzzzzzzzzzztttttt

    Re: Stolen Vests Sold to Drug Dealers (none / 0) (#8)
    by Adept Havelock on Tue Mar 29, 2005 at 09:34:17 PM EST
    Thankfully, at least these nitwits will have the UCMJ thrown at them.

    Re: Stolen Vests Sold to Drug Dealers (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Mar 30, 2005 at 06:16:54 AM EST
    TS - Typical snarky comment by an anti-war person. You know, if there is a shortage in Iraq, then we have a serious problem in supply-demand management, which is not new in the military. I have seen electronic equipment being scrapped while subassemblies for repair of the same equipment was back ordered, and aircraft grounded. So this desrves investigation. But, if there was no shortage, maybe all the Iraq comments was just BS. Makes one wonder.

    Re: Stolen Vests Sold to Drug Dealers (none / 0) (#10)
    by soccerdad on Wed Mar 30, 2005 at 06:37:16 AM EST
    Typical snarky comment by an anti-war person
    PPJ complaining of a snarky comment, does it get any funnier!

    Re: Stolen Vests Sold to Drug Dealers (none / 0) (#11)
    by kdog on Wed Mar 30, 2005 at 06:46:01 AM EST
    A bunch of twenty year olds trying to supplement their income, that's my take. A foolish mistake, that will most likely prove costly. Employee theft is rampant nationwide, especially with employees of Uncle Sam. Remember that republican staffer awhile back who stole that flatscreen tv? This shouldn't be a shock. Now, if we ended our foolish drug prohibition policies, these airmen would have had a much tougher time moving the stolen goods, FWIW.

    Re: Stolen Vests Sold to Drug Dealers (none / 0) (#12)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Mar 30, 2005 at 07:51:21 AM EST
    Free enterprise at its worst. Hardly. More like "Free-lance socialism at its best." After all, you have a theft of valuable property from its rightful owners by parasites who benefit by redistributing that property to unworthy scum- for a slight 'administration fee'.

    Re: Stolen Vests Sold to Drug Dealers (none / 0) (#13)
    by Adept Havelock on Wed Mar 30, 2005 at 09:15:33 AM EST
    After all, you have a theft of valuable property from its rightful owners by parasites who benefit by redistributing that property to unworthy scum- for a slight 'administration fee'.
    Only a troll completely ignorant of economics and politics would not recognize the illegal drug industry and the process of fencing stolen goods as unfettered capitalism, driven solely by the laws of supply and demand. Go back to troll school, it's clear you were a troll child that was left behind.

    Re: Stolen Vests Sold to Drug Dealers (none / 0) (#14)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Mar 30, 2005 at 06:19:46 PM EST
    SD - Any funnier? How about you agreeing with OBL that "the US government is unjust, criminal and tyrannical."

    Stolen Vests Sold to Drug Dealers | 14 comments (14 topical)