A missing 15-year-old Pennsylvania girl was found in the basement of a home rented by a 27-year-old active-duty airman after investigators tracked his cellphone to Dover Air Force Base, according to a federal criminal complaint obtained by The Salty Soldier. The girl later told investigators that Dylan Drake Williams sexually assaulted her, recorded multiple encounters…
Buried in a 17-page federal indictment recently unsealed in New York is an alleged Russian murder plot that could have come straight out of a spy thriller. There are encrypted messages, photographs of a target’s home, a $40,000 offer to make him disappear—and a recruiter called “Viking.” Viewers of Paramount+’s The Agency may recognize the…
MOORE COUNTY, N.C. — More than a year after an Army Soldier was arrested while attending a leadership school at Fort Bragg, a Moore County grand jury has indicted him on felony charges stemming from allegations involving a 14-year-old girl. Dustin Ray Goodroe was indicted Aug. 3 on charges of first-degree kidnapping and soliciting a…
A New York Army National Guard noncommissioned officer with a large social media following is drawing scrutiny after images circulating online appear to show her posing in explicit imagery while displaying what appears to be U.S. Army identification inside her phone case. The concerns raised by the images are not centered on the imagery itself,…
SAN FRANCISCO — Activist groups are planning to gather later today outside the Israeli Consulate in downtown San Francisco to mark the second anniversary of the death of Senior Airman Aaron Bushnell, the U.S. Air Force member who died in 2024 after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. The demonstration…
A U.S. Air Force senior airman accused of serious misconduct involving minors went to trial this week at McConnell Air Force Base, while a separate felony insurance fraud prosecution and an active civil debt lawsuit continue to move forward in Kansas state court. Senior Airman Randall Race Thomas Moore Jr., 26, assigned to the 22nd…
When an American service member dies overseas, particularly in a country where large-scale combat operations have largely ended, the expectation is not immediate certainty — but eventual answers. In the case of Spc. Travis Jordan Pameni, even that expectation went unmet. Army records show the administrative investigation into Pameni’s death was completed in November 2024….
