Man Who Robbed Disabled Veteran Found and Charge

Man accused of stealing from disabled Marine arrested Kevin Lima accused in Yarmouth theft
WCVB News
Jun 23, 2016

YARMOUTH, Mass. —A man accused of stealing from a disabled U.S. Marine combat veteran and his wife who were vacationing on Cape Cod was arrested Thursday.

Kevin Lima, 36, of Acushnet, was arrested in Plymouth after he was identified as the person who stole hundreds of dollars, personal belongings, military identifications and specially made hearing aids from Robert Watson and his wife, authorities said.

The family was vacationing in Plymouth from North Carolina and took a day trip to the Cape Cod Inflatable Park, where their belongings were stolen.

"It’s a sigh of relief knowing he’s behind bars, but the after effect can stay with you forever,” Robert Watson said. “The way I see it is, if he's willing to do it to me after knowing my life as a Marine then there's no telling the next person he would have gotten.”

Lima is scheduled to face charges Thursday in Barnstable District Court.

At the time of the incident, the Watsons said they met a man and his young son at the park who befriended them and thanked him for his service as a Marine.
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LA High Speed Chase Driver Was Trained By Marines

SUSPECT IN WILD LA CHASE WAS TRAINED MILITARY DRIVER, PENTAGON SAYS
Eyewitness ABC 7 News
By Miriam Hernandez and ABC7.com staff
Friday, April 08, 2016

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The driver who led police on a wild chase through Los Angeles on Thursday was a trained vehicle operator for the U.S Marine Corps, the Pentagon confirmed.

According to military personnel information from the Marine Corps, 20-year-old Herschel Reynolds served in the Marines from April 22, 2014 to Jan. 13, 2016. He was ranked as a private, and although he was never deployed, he was decorated with the National Defense Service Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, records show.

Reynolds was trained at Camp Pendleton as a Marine Corps motor vehicle operator.
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Woman Attacks Elderly Veteran--Shoppers Keep Shopping

ATTACK ON ELDERLY FRESNO VETERAN CAUGHT ON CAMERA
ABC 30 News Fresno
Corin Hoggard
October 21, 2015

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- An elderly Fresno veteran is sharing his story with Action News after a woman attacked him.

The confrontation was caught on camera, but the suspect has not been caught.

If Mickey the pug is scowling more than usual, it's because of what happened to his owner, Victor Bejarano, two weeks ago.

"You see patrons inside the store," said Fresno police Sgt. Mark Hudson. "They're looking at her assaulting him. He continues to struggle, continues not to be a victim of a robbery."

Bejarano stuck around to get the part he needed to fix a friend's van. The retired mechanic still does work to help people out when they're short on money. He says the attacker just took the wrong approach to get his good side. "But if she told me 'Hey, I have family I've got kids, I would've given her $10," he said.
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Chicago Theif Stole From Deployed Marines

Marines Return From Overseas to Ransacked Home
“It just sucked to come home to,” Cpl. Adam Resseguie said
NBC Chicago
By Alexandria Fisher
Saturday, May 31, 2014

Adam Resseguie, of Fox River Grove, Illinois, had been deployed since September 2013.

The Marine Scout Sniper returned from Afghanistan on Memorial Day weekend to learn that thousands of dollars worth of his belongings were missing from a North Carolina home where he had them stored.

Before leaving for Afghanistan, Resseguie said he stored his possessions at the home of Cpl. Ryan Glass, a fellow Marine who was also set to deploy around the same time.

While the two were gone they asked a neighbor to look after the home and their belongings. During their time abroad, the two were notified by the neighbor that the home was ransacked and several of their belongings taken.

"[My neighbor] sent me pictures on Facebook and I just see everything in my house is just broken, stuff is missing around my house," Glass said.

They said a man who had been renting a room at the neighbor's residence for at least a year stole Glass' key and took their belongings.

A North Carolina police detective familiar with the case confirmed that the suspect is listed as “wanted” but could not offer any further details surrounding the case. The detective declined to be named for this story because of the ongoing investigation.
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Florida Afghanistan Veteran Marine Takes Down Crook

Former Marine helps catch robbery suspect in Bradenton
Bay News 9
By Randi Nissenbaum, Reporter
March 09, 2014

BRADENTON
Dustin Ellis was relaxing outside of his parents' house in Bradenton last week, when he witnessed a neighbor's house being robbed.

“He got past us and I heard that the gentlemen robbed a ladies house," said Ellis. "I started chasing him down the sidewalk.”

Ellis, a Marine who served in Afghanistan until 2012, ended up chasing the suspect through the neighborhood. He even had to climb through fences. Ellis has a brown belt in Marine Corps martial arts.

When he tracked down the suspect, he realized that he had a screw driver in his hand. Thanks to his Marine background, he knew just what to do.

“I came up from behind him, I took the screwdriver from him and then I put him on the ground," he said. "When I did, he was on his hands and knees and dropped to his stomach. From there I then rolled him over in a sitting position and grabbed him by his hoodie.”
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Indiana National Guardsman hero killed stopping robbery

Former guardsman killed in Bahamas robbery
May. 18, 2013
By Eric Weddle
The Indianapolis Star

INDIANAPOLIS — Kyle Bruner led a marching band, taught special-needs children, excelled as an athlete and handled heavy artillery in the Indiana National Guard — all in 34 years, before dying what police described as a hero’s death earlier this week in the Bahamas.

Bruner, who spent his youth in Indianapolis and later settled in Chicago, was in the Caribbean country in pursuit of a new career as a professional mariner after years working as a deckhand.

His sister said Friday it was one of Bruner’s most defining traits — a desire to stick up for others — that led to his death. He was shot in the neck as he tried to help a woman who was being mugged, according to Nassau police.

Sarah Brown recalled how he once came to her defense. Some kids had begun to pick on her at one of his baseball games.
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Iraq veteran stopped two robbers with AR-15

Police: Iraq War vet thwarts gas station break-in
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
April 30, 2013

SHINGLETON, Mich. — Police say an Iraq War veteran thwarted two would-be burglars at his northern Michigan gas station by kicking one of them and ordering them away with an AR-15 rifle.

State police said Shawn Schank was inside the gas station about 4:10 a.m. Sunday in Shingleton, an Upper Peninsula community in Alger County, when two people wearing ski masks forced their way into the building and approached the cash register.
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Homeless and unemployed veterans stop attacker

Rescuers: Helping robbery victim 'a reward in itself'
Two jobless veterans jumped in to stop attack, chased after suspect
Jan 2, 2013
Written by
Jennifer Edwards Baker

DOWNTOWN — David Hale was walking to the main branch of the public library downtown about noon Monday when he saw a man approach Gary Wagner at an ATM at the corner of Central Parkway and Vine Street.

“He put his arm around his neck and took him to the ground,” Hale said. “He started punching him. That’s when I ran over and got in between them, trying to separate them.”

Chad McClain heard Wagner scream for help and joined Hale’s efforts.

Together, the two men – one homeless and one who was recently homeless, and both military veterans who didn’t know each other before the incident – wrestled Wagner free. Hale stayed with Wagner while McClain, 38, ran after the suspect and stood in front of his car to keep him from leaving.

“I told him, ‘You’re not going to get away with this,’” McClain said. “The police were there within seconds.”
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Disabled Vet Becomes Target Of Thieves and Heroes Stepped Up

When I read the headline, I got angry but as soon as I read the rest I wanted to cry because heroes stepped up. Police responded and arrested the creeps because a witness wrote down the license plate. People stepped up to donate to get this disabled veteran to the VA Golden Games and they were more upset because someone stole money from a disabled veteran. But that was not the end. The store ended up donating all he needed to get him to the games and the donations are still coming in.

Disabled Vet Becomes Target Of Thieves
Trio Arrested, Admits Using Stolen Money To Buy Drugs
WEST HAVEN, Conn. -- Police said a disabled veteran became a target of thieves after he was robbed of his fundraising money outside a grocery store.

Martin Lopez, of Colchester, said he has never been the type to just give up. Lopez is a Vietnam veteran and lost his ability to speak over a decade ago. He now uses a keyboard to communicate.

For several years, Lopez has been playing in the VA National Golden Games, which is an event like the Olympics.

Lopez said he raises money for his travel expenses by selling raffle tickets at local stores, like Stop & Shop. That's what he was doing when police said Lopez was robbed over the weekend.

State police said three men grabbed his cash box that had $280 and ran. Police said a witness wrote down the license plate of the car the trio drove away in, and police were able to track the men down and arrest them.

Several organizations, including Stop & Shop have pledged donations. In fact, Colchester Stop & Shop store manager John Riordan presented Lopez with a $250 check on Tuesday.

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2 Ft. Lewis soldiers sentenced in UW robberies

2 Ft. Lewis soldiers sentenced in UW robberies

By KOMO Staff SEATTLE -- Two Fort Lewis soldier have been sentenced for his role in an attack near the University of Washington earlier this year.

Pvt. 1st Class Chad A. Braden, 19, of Etna, Ohio, and Pvt. Robert E. Lucas, Jr., 20, of Murfreesboro, Tenn. were sentenced to 34 months in jail on Friday after reaching a plea deal. The two pleaded guilty to beating and robbing two men in January.

But before the judge made his decision, Braden broke down in tears and apologized to the victims and his own family.
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Chicago men stop burglar, one stabbed, all brave

Man stabbed while helping woman in Lincoln Park
Jeremy Gorner on October 23, 2008 at 8:28 PM

A man was stabbed this morning while trying to come to the aid of a woman whose apartment was burglarized in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, police said.




About 9:40 a.m., the woman was in her residence near West Dickens Avenue and North Halsted Street when she heard a burglar inside, police said. A struggle took place in the apartment between the woman and the burglar, who eventually made off with some of her belongings.

Two workmen outside the apartment building, along with another man, apparently aware of the crime in progress, saw the burglar as he fled, police said. One of the men was stabbed during a confrontation with the burglar.

Two of the three people who were involved in the chase talked outside the hospital where the wounded workman was being treated.
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Burglers new low, hitting Minneapolis Veterans Home

Server containing sensitive information was stolen from Veterans Home
Missing server contained information about residents and some of their dependents

By TIM HARLOW, Star Tribune

Last update: July 18, 2008 - 2:48 PM


It appears that burglars took more than just a laptop computer and sundry electronics when they broke into the Minneapolis Veterans Home early Sunday morning.

Officials at the home say they also made off with a backup server that did include password-protected information about home residents and some dependents, said spokeswoman Anna Lewicki Long.


Thieves broke into two buildings on the campus early Sunday. They took a tool kit, two musical keyboards, a guitar, a Nintendo Wii and a laptop computer that did not contain information about residents, employees or financial data.
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