Army Sergeant Pleads Not Guilty to Charges That He Shot 5 People at a Georgia Base
FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) — An Army sergeant appearing before a military judge Friday pleaded not guilty in the shootings of five people, including his romantic partner, at a Georgia base where he faces a trial by court-martial in June. Sgt. Quornelius Radford, 28, is charged with attempted murder and other crimes in the Aug. […]
Army Veteran Who Burned Flag Near White House Pleads Not Guilty to Federal Charges
WASHINGTON — An Army veteran who set fire to an American flag near the White House to protest President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on flag burning pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal criminal charges. Jan Carey is charged with two misdemeanors that are not focused on the act of burning a flag. Making his […]
Retired Army Officer Pleads Guilty to Leaking National Defense Info on Foreign Dating Website
A retired Army lieutenant colonel who worked as an Air Force civilian employee has pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide classified information through an online dating app to someone claiming to be a person in Ukraine. On Thursday, 64-year-old David Slater entered his guilty plea, a Justice Department news release said. Slater, after retiring from […]
Hawaii Soldier Pleads Guilty to Killing Wife with Machete, Dismembering Body
The mystery of what happened to Mischa Mabeline Kaalohilani Johnson, a pregnant 19-year-old Army spouse who was reported missing by her 28-year-old soldier husband on Aug. 1, has finally been solved. The Army arrested her husband, Pfc. Dewayne Arthur Johnson, at Schofield Barracks within weeks of him filing the report and charged him with her […]
Fort Carson Soldier Pleads Not Guilty to Drug Charges After Nightclub Raid
DENVER — The Fort Carson soldier arrested for alleged cocaine distribution just days after a large-scale federal raid of a Colorado Springs illegal nightclub in late April pleaded not guilty to multiple charges Thursday. Staff Sgt. Juan Gabriel Orona-Rodriguez, 27, appeared out of custody after a federal judge ruled he was eligible for release at […]
Army Vet Accused of Slaying Wife, Her Father and a Neighbor Pleads Not Guilty
The Army veteran accused in the chilling murder of his wife, her father and a neighbor — as the couple’s 4-year-old daughter watched — made a brief appearance in court Friday morning and pleaded not guilty. Nathan Gingles, 43, dressed in gray-striped prison garb, didn’t utter a word during the hearing at the Broward County […]
3 Colombians Face Big Prison Terms After Guilty Pleas to Kidnapping US Soldiers in Bogotá
A trio of Colombians who pleaded guilty in Miami federal court to drugging and kidnapping two U.S. Army soldiers at a sports bar in Bogotá five years ago face long prison sentences. On Wednesday, Pedro Jose Silva Ochoa, 47, was sentenced to more than 27 years by a federal judge after previously pleading guilty to […]
Army Veteran Pleads Not Guilty to Killing Homeless Man in Downtown Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A U.S. Army veteran who served in the war in Afghanistan pleaded not guilty Wednesday to fatally shooting a homeless man with an automatic rifle in downtown Memphis. A lawyer for Karl P. Loucks, 42, entered the plea to a first-degree murder charge during a hearing in Shelby County Criminal Court. Loucks […]
Army Doctor Files Guilty Plea in 41 Cases of Sexual Contact, Indecent Behavior with Patients
An Army anesthesiologist has pleaded guilty to the sexual abuse of dozens of patients in one of the largest such prosecutions involving a single perpetrator ever in the U.S. military. Maj. Michael Stockin entered a guilty plea at the start of his court-martial at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, on Tuesday, admitting to 41 violations of […]
Army Veteran Found Guilty in Wife's 2021 Strangulation
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jurors deliberated less than three hours Thursday morning before finding Lee Cuellar guilty of first-degree murder for strangling his wife in 2021. The 2nd Judicial District Court jury reached the verdict following eight days of trail before Judge Britt Baca. A first-degree murder conviction requires Cuellar, 45, to serve at least 30 […]