Former 兵士 刑務所,拘置所d after buying uniform and fooling 軍隊/機動隊s at U.S. Army base

  • 36-year-old had been 発射する/解雇するd on 医療の grounds
  • 'It was very hard for me to let go,' said ex-兵士
  • '長,指導者 関心' of 裁判官 was guns 設立する at his home
  • 裁判官 believed that (刑事)被告 手配中の,お尋ね者 to steal 金物類/武器類
Anthony Saxon has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison after posing as an Army officer

Anthony Saxon has been 宣告,判決d to nearly five years in 刑務所,拘置所 after 提起する/ポーズをとるing as an Army officer

A former 兵士 has been 宣告,判決d to four years and nine months in 刑務所,拘置所 after buying uniform and fooling 軍隊/機動隊s at a U.S. Army base.

Anthony Todd Saxon, 発射する/解雇するd from the Army 17 years ago because of a heart 条件, 納得させるd guards at Fort Gordon, Georgia, he was still serving on at least 10 occasions.

The 36-year-old 猛烈に 手配中の,お尋ね者 to remain in the services and 主張するd that he did not mean anything malicious by the stunt.

Moreover he didn't want to disappoint his family and friends by not 存在 の中で the 階級s.

Last year he entered the base and 提起する/ポーズをとるd as a master sergeant and said in 法廷,裁判所 yesterday that it was a 決定/判定勝ち(する) which was driven by a life-long 願望(する) to serve his country.

That 願望(する) had cruelly been 削減(する) short after just three years in 1994 when the Florida 国家の Guard 解任するd him on 医療の grounds.

'I want to わびる for dishonouring the U.S. Army by impersonating a 兵士,' Saxon said at his 宣告,判決ing 審理,公聴会 in U.S. 地区 法廷,裁判所 in Augusta.

'It's a very big 問題/発行する to me. It was very hard for me to let go.'

にもかかわらず 配達するing a 非常に長い 陳謝, Saxon was 宣告,判決d to serve nearly five years in 連邦の 刑務所,拘置所.

Army soldiers line up in Fort Gordon, where Saxon pretended to still be in the Army, despite being discharged 17 years ago

Army 兵士s line up in Fort Gordon, where Saxon pretended to still be in the Army, にもかかわらず 存在 発射する/解雇するd 17 years ago

Saxon entered Fort Gordon, in Georgia, at least 10 ten posing as an Army soldier

Saxon entered Fort Gordon, in Georgia, at least 10 ten 提起する/ポーズをとるing as an Army 兵士

裁判官 Dudley Bowen said his 長,指導者 関心 was the 強襲,強姦 ライフル銃/探して盗む and several other guns, 加える 軍の training 手りゅう弾s, 設立する at Saxon's home in nearby Keysville.

Saxon had a 1996 重罪 有罪の判決 for grand 窃盗 in Florida, and 検察官,検事s said 当局 had 警告するd him in 2005 that he couldn't 合法的に own 武器s because of his 記録,記録的な/記録する.

Saxon was 逮捕(する)d in June and pleaded 有罪の in January to impersonating a 兵士, 所有/入手 of 小火器 by a 罪人/有罪を宣告するd felon and 所有/入手 of a silencer stolen from a 地元の gun shop.

Assistant U.S. 弁護士/代理人/検事 Stephen Inman said interviews with Saxon and psychological 実験(する)s 支配するd out 初期の 恐れるs that he planned a 'Fort Hood シナリオ' to 害(を与える) 兵士s at Fort Gordon or that he was 'just a crazy individual'.

Inman told the 裁判官 he 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑うs Saxon was 提起する/ポーズをとるing as a 兵士 to steal 軍の 金物類/武器類 and sell it.

'I don't believe misguided patriotism was the source of his 犯罪の 活動/戦闘s in this 事例/患者,' Inman said.

'I think the source was a 利益(をあげる) 動機. He loved this country and loved the Army so much that he decided to 嘘(をつく) and steal from the Army.'

Saxon wore an Army 戦闘 uniform with the 階級 and insignia of a master sergeant at least 10 times last year to Fort Gordon, home of the Army Signal 軍団 and one of largest 軍の hospitals in the Southeast.

During one visit, によれば 法廷,裁判所 記録,記録的な/記録するs, he 納得させるd a 兵士 to give him a レーザー-的ing sight for a ライフル銃/探して盗む.

The 連邦検察局 決定するd Saxon was never 雇うd at Fort Gordon, either as a 兵士 or a 非軍事の.

Inman 公式文書,認めるd 当局 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑う Saxon may have had a live anti-職員/兵員 地雷 at the time of his 逮捕(する), though a 爆弾 squad blew it up before 捜査官/調査官s could get a の近くに look.

爆発性のs 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s were dropped as part of his 嘆願 取引,協定, along with counts of 窃盗 of 政府 所有物/資産/財産, 窃盗 of a firearm, 不法所持 of a ライフル銃/探して盗む with a 縮めるd バーレル/樽.

The 宣告,判決 Saxon received is far いっそう少なく than the 最大限 23 years in 刑務所,拘置所 許すd for the 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s he pleaded 有罪の to.

Saxon's family pleaded for mercy and his father told the 裁判官 that Saxon had known almost since he was born that he 手配中の,お尋ね者 to be a 兵士.

Saxon's wife, Rhonda Saxon, said she had forgiven her husband. When Saxon was 逮捕(する)d, 検察官,検事s said, she and other family members believed Saxon was about to (軍隊を)展開する,配備する overseas to Afghanistan.

'He's a good person,' she told the 裁判官. 'His love for the 軍の is 絶対 crazy.

'That's all he dreams about and thinks about every day.'

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