A U.S. Army military police Soldier at Fort Leavenworth is facing murder and involuntary manslaughter charges after prosecutors allege he shot and killed his 7-month-old son with a rifle inside their on-post residence. Spc. Peyton D. Creel is assigned to the Combined Arms Command Law Enforcement Activity, Special Troops Battalion, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The…
A former U.S. Army Soldier convicted in a sprawling hacking and extortion scheme continued researching computer vulnerabilities after his arrest, using other inmates’ email accounts to obtain information from artificial intelligence about hacking techniques, improvised prison antennas and escaping custody, according to federal prosecutors. Cameron John Wagenius, 22, was sentenced Sept. 25 to 70 months…
An Army veteran running for U.S. Senate in Idaho has apparently created a political ad good enough to make people consider moving there. At least according to the comment section. Independent Senate candidate Todd Achilles released a campaign video Sept. 22 built around an intentionally simple lesson for politicians thinking about starting another war: don’t….
New military-themed adult content depicting an active-duty Fort Bragg sergeant has surfaced publicly months after the Army launched multiple investigations into her online activity. The photographs and videos reviewed by The Salty Soldier depict Sgt. Yessica Nunez-Melendez, whose online adult-content activity has been the subject of the publication’s reporting since January. The newly discovered social-media…
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — A Fort Campbell military police sergeant was sentenced to six months in confinement and a bad-conduct discharge after admitting he maltreated two junior Soldiers and assaulted one of them during incidents connected to their work as military police officers. Sgt. Kaden H. Zhang, assigned to the Fort Campbell Law Enforcement Company,…
A longtime Army recruiter who served at recruiting stations across Michigan and eventually became a station chief was scheduled to face trial by special court-martial at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The Army’s public court docket identifies the accused as Sgt. 1st Class Michael V. Roberts, whom publicly available records identify as the station chief of the…
Chief Master Sgt. Anthony Green is shown while serving as command chief at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, on Sept. 4, 2019, left, and during a chief’s induction ceremony in Tampa on Jan. 31, 2020, right. (U.S. Air Force photos by Airman 1st Class Ryan C. Grossklag and Airman 1st Class Shannon Bowman) A former…
A Marine Corps intelligence warrant officer previously charged with assaulting his spouse and a child in Okinawa has been sentenced to two years in confinement after pleading guilty to domestic violence and child endangerment. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Benjamin G. Dux was sentenced Aug. 5 following a general court-martial before a military judge. Despite the…
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…
