![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a series of stories, The Associated Press has detailed how the U.S. The two men had heard from contacts that the customers were taking the haul into Mexico. Now they were headed to El Paso, Texas, to sell the stolen weapons. Sumlin said he might be able to find a buyer. Jarvis was looking to sell stolen military equipment from an armory at Bragg. Their wives, war stories, favorite movies.Ī few months earlier, Jarvis had reached out to ask if Sumlin had interest in making some money. The two men, who’d been close since they served in Afghanistan, tried to distract themselves with idle road-trip chatter. 1st Class Jason Jarvis, a soldier on active-duty from Fort Bragg’s 18th Ordnance Company in North Carolina - Sumlin’s old unit. Riding shotgun was Sumlin’s military blood brother, Sgt. He would recall thinking, “Is it too late to turn around?” Army soldier was getting a cold, and understandably tense: He was transporting a platoon’s worth of stolen rifles, enough C4 to blow up his car and those around him, a live hand grenade. It was November 2018, and the driver, Tyler Sumlin, was uncomfortable. Packed with rifles and explosives, the SUV hurtled down a Florida interstate beneath bright blue autumn skies, passing other motorists with little notice. How brothers in arms plotted theft, sale of US Army weaponryBy JAMES LAPORTA and JASON DEARENAssociated PressThe Associated Press ![]()
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