(Fox News) Former Gitmo Navy commander sentenced to 2 years for lying about civilian's death
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Federal prosecutors had sought 37 to 46 months in prison
By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News
A former Navy commander stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison for lying about a drunken fight with a commissary worker who was found dead and floating in the bay.
Retired Navy captain John Nettleton's sentence came down more than five years after Christopher Tur's body was found. Nettleton was not charged in Tur's death but was convicted in January of six counts of obstruction of justice and lying to officials.
He was sentenced Thursday following an hourslong hearing where Tur's mother and siblings pleaded for a severe sentence. Nettleton's family and friends described him as an upstanding veteran combat helicopter pilot who led a life of integrity, during their time in front of the judge.
Federal prosecutors had sought 37 to 46 months in prison. Defense lawyers pushed for no jail time.
Nettleton had commanded the naval base since June 2012 but not the infamous detention center where suspected terrorists are held. He was removed from command soon after Tur, a civilian, was found dead on the southeastern coast of Cuba in 2015.
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Jacksonville Navy captain charged after 2015 death at Guantanamo Bay involving alleged love triangle
Captain John "J.R." Nettleton turned himself in on Wednesday in connection to the death of 42-year-old Christopher Tur, who was found dead in the waters off the Guantanamo base on Jan. 11, 2015.
Author: Melissa Guz
Published: 2:10 PM EST January 9, 2019
Updated: 12:29 PM EST January 10, 2019
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A U.S. Navy captain stationed in Jacksonville, Florida was arrested on Wednesday on obstruction of justice charges after he failed to disclose information about a bloody altercation with a Navy employee who accused him of having an affair with his wife, according to a federal indictment.
His next court appearance is scheduled for April 22, 2019 at 4 p.m. and trial could begin as soon as May 6 at 9 a.m.
The employee and former U.S. Marine, 42-year-old Christopher Tur, was found dead in the waters off the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on Jan. 11, 2015.
Navy Captain John "J.R." Nettleton, 53, was a commander at the base at the time of Tur's death. He was reassigned to Jacksonville in 2012 while the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) investigated Tur's case.
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Ex-Navy commander of Guantanamo Bay 'hindered the investigation into the death of his mistress' husband, who disappeared the same night they had a bar fight over the affair'
By ASSOCIATED PRESS and DAILYMAIL.COM REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 14:17 EDT, 9 January 2019 | UPDATED: 16:54 EDT, 10 January 2019
A former commander of the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay was arrested Wednesday on charges that he interfered with the investigation into the death of his mistress' husband with whom he fought after an argument over whether the officer had had an affair with her.
Navy Capt. John R. Nettleton, 53, remains on active duty, but he was removed from command shortly after civilian Christopher Tur was found floating in January 2015 in the waters off the base on the southeastern coast of Cuba.
Nettleton was accused in a federal indictment of obstruction of justice and concealing material facts, including that he and Tur had brawled, in an alcohol-fueled encounter at a base nightclub, after Tur accused the commander of having an affair with his wife, Lara.
Nettleton denied to his superior officer and others that he had the affair, but investigators later determined that it had happened, according to an indictment issued in Jacksonville, Florida, where Nettleton has been on temporary duty.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6574487/Ex-Guantanamo-commander-charged-hindering-death-probe.html
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What did Tur's family expect? Heck, Tur was enlisted, he was outranked, of course. Had he lived, he should have apologized for bothering his superior.