Soldier gets five months for selling scopes online

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Soldier gets five months for selling scopes online
By Kent Harris, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Friday, November 21, 2008

VICENZA, Italy — A soldier who pleaded guilty to selling two scopes for military assault weapons on e-Bay was sentenced to five months in prison and a loss of three ranks Thursday in a special court-martial.

Col. Jeffery Nance, the military judge, also sentenced Spc. Kalen J. Reisinger to forfeit $500 in pay for five months. Three of the four charges that Reisinger faced were essentially dismissed because of a pretrial agreement.

Civilian defense attorney David Court said his client agreed to plead guilty to two of 10 specifications of selling government property and, in exchange, military prosecutors agreed to not present any evidence on the other charges: larceny, conspiracy and conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline.

"Because the government produced no evidence, by definition he is not guilty (of the other charges)," Court said.

Reisinger, a member of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, was assistant armorer for his unit when he found a box of 10 scopes in the armory that weren’t registered to any particular unit. He said he took two of them and opened an e-Bay account. One scope was sold for $242.50 on April 14, 2007. Another sold for $214.50 two days later.


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