A U.S. Army veteran was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to stealing $2.1 million in gear from Fort Hood in Texas that was later found listed for sale on eBay.
You can now listen to Fox News articles!who pleaded guilty to stealing $2.1 million worth of military gear from the embattled Texas base Fort Hood was sentenced last week to just a year and a half behind bars.
Soldiers reported finding locks cut on 17 Conex shipping containers on the base, and an audit showed that a total of 137 items worth about $2.1 million were missing. "It was a smash-and-grab," Assistant U.S. Attorney Joel Stacey Dunn said on Tuesday, according to The Killeen Daily Herald."They took whatever they could get."several of the stolen itemsThe main gate at the U.S. Army post at Fort Hood, Texas is pictured in this undated photograph, obtained on Nov. 5, 2009.
"I want a better reality," Smith said before her sentencing, according to The Killeen Daily Herald."I want to do better in life, and I’ll never be in this situation again."was granted a search warrant for Nichol’s home in July 2021. Investigators found $1.23 million in cash and stolen gear, as well as a phone with conversations between Smith and Nichols dating back to March of that year, according to court documents. Brown said he had access to the base.
Brown, also an Army veteran, pleaded not guilty on Nov. 29, 2021. His case is set for jury trial in September. Smith had pleaded guilty in June 2014 to theft in Bell County while she wasShe was deployed to Afghanistan that same month and returned by November of that year. Bell County prosecutors reopened her theft case in 2020 when she was charged with felony family assault, violating her probation terms.
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