A 23-year-old Marine Corporal is under arrest for allegedly stealing a missile system and other “weapons of war” from his California base and selling them for personal profit.
AZ Family reported the Marine, Andrew Paul Amarillas, is “accused of stealing a Javelin missile system and cans of ammunition… to sell on the streets in Arizona.”
Amarillas is an ammunition technician specialist at Camp Pendleton.
The New York Post noted that the Javelin missile system “is capable of punching through heavy tank armor from miles away.”
Just The News observed that Amarillas’s charges “[included] conspiracy to commit theft and embezzlement of government property and possession and sale of stolen ammunition.” He is accused of taking thousands of rounds of ammunition, in addition to the missile system.
He allegedly had two buyers to whom he would sell the items and reportedly texted one of them the following: “[I] have 2 launchers that [I] think you’d like, if you want to take a look tomorrow.”
The two buyers are listed in court documents as “co-conspirators.”
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