Posted on Jun 7, 2018
Soldier who stole armored personnel carrier sparking Virginia chase claims it was part of...
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"told the Associated Press in a phone call Wednesday night he was authorized to take the vehicle on a pre-planned route as part of a training exercise to gauge the police response." Now that is funny
Soldier who stole armored personnel carrier sparking Virginia chase claims it was part of...
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LCDR (Join to see) - I said this in another RP post about this.
To many things in this story don't add up. It sounds this individual was dropped by the intel community in a way to burn him.
Joshua Yabut:
NASA Langley Research Center
Developer for ZenCash
Prior to the event tweeted a Wikipedia entry about the M113 armored personnel carrier, which is similar to the M577.
Prior to the event up loaded a screenshot of a map around the area where the vehicle eventually stopped.
Yabut told The Associated Press he was authorized to take the vehicle on a pre-planned route as part of a training exercise to gauge the police response. Yabut said his brigade commander, who he declined to name, told him to take the vehicle.
Yabut also denied authorities’ claim that he was under the influence of drugs during the incident. “That’s a big ‘NO’ with capital letters,” he said.
Michael Finneran, a spokesman for the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, said Yabut worked there in a civilian job in the office of the chief information officer from 2014-2017.
Yabut also previously worked as a developer for ZenCash, the cryptocurrency company said in a statement Wednesday.
Yabut was a developer in the project’s early stages, and he “intentionally made public a method” of attacking the system, which was a “vulnerability” that he coded in, according to the statement.
Representatives of the company, which said in the statement that it had mitigated the vulnerability, didn’t immediately respond to further questions from The Associated Press.
Yabut was being held at the Richmond jail. Attempts to reach his defense attorney or family members who could comment on his behalf were not successful.
Yabut seemed to foreshadow the theft and chase in Twitter posts Tuesday. Hours before the vehicle drove off the base, an account confirmed by the Guard as Yabut’s tweeted a Wikipedia entry about the M113 armored personnel carrier, which is similar to the M577 vehicle police chased, and a screenshot of a map around the area where the vehicle eventually stopped.
Minutes after police began their pursuit shortly before 8 p.m., Yabut posted a photo and video of himself in what appears to be the stolen vehicle.
He wrote a series of odd tweets Tuesday, including: “where is this damn water buffalo” ″all i wanna do is get an anime wife” and “wow I think I just discovered a large illegal spy operation in the us government.”
Attempts to reach Yabut's family members were not successful.
In February, Yabut filed papers to run as an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Tim Kaine.
Yabut is due back in court on July 11.
Associated Press writer Sarah Rankin contributed to this report.
His actions show to me that he saw something that he did not trust, either and order given or actions within and he started to loose trust in the system. Then started dropping information out.
To many things in this story don't add up. It sounds this individual was dropped by the intel community in a way to burn him.
Joshua Yabut:
NASA Langley Research Center
Developer for ZenCash
Prior to the event tweeted a Wikipedia entry about the M113 armored personnel carrier, which is similar to the M577.
Prior to the event up loaded a screenshot of a map around the area where the vehicle eventually stopped.
Yabut told The Associated Press he was authorized to take the vehicle on a pre-planned route as part of a training exercise to gauge the police response. Yabut said his brigade commander, who he declined to name, told him to take the vehicle.
Yabut also denied authorities’ claim that he was under the influence of drugs during the incident. “That’s a big ‘NO’ with capital letters,” he said.
Michael Finneran, a spokesman for the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, said Yabut worked there in a civilian job in the office of the chief information officer from 2014-2017.
Yabut also previously worked as a developer for ZenCash, the cryptocurrency company said in a statement Wednesday.
Yabut was a developer in the project’s early stages, and he “intentionally made public a method” of attacking the system, which was a “vulnerability” that he coded in, according to the statement.
Representatives of the company, which said in the statement that it had mitigated the vulnerability, didn’t immediately respond to further questions from The Associated Press.
Yabut was being held at the Richmond jail. Attempts to reach his defense attorney or family members who could comment on his behalf were not successful.
Yabut seemed to foreshadow the theft and chase in Twitter posts Tuesday. Hours before the vehicle drove off the base, an account confirmed by the Guard as Yabut’s tweeted a Wikipedia entry about the M113 armored personnel carrier, which is similar to the M577 vehicle police chased, and a screenshot of a map around the area where the vehicle eventually stopped.
Minutes after police began their pursuit shortly before 8 p.m., Yabut posted a photo and video of himself in what appears to be the stolen vehicle.
He wrote a series of odd tweets Tuesday, including: “where is this damn water buffalo” ″all i wanna do is get an anime wife” and “wow I think I just discovered a large illegal spy operation in the us government.”
Attempts to reach Yabut's family members were not successful.
In February, Yabut filed papers to run as an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Tim Kaine.
Yabut is due back in court on July 11.
Associated Press writer Sarah Rankin contributed to this report.
His actions show to me that he saw something that he did not trust, either and order given or actions within and he started to loose trust in the system. Then started dropping information out.
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