2nd ID soldier gets 10 months, bad conduct discharge for stealing money, debit cards

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2nd ID soldier gets 10 months, bad conduct discharge for stealing money, debit cards
By Jimmy Norris, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Thursday, October 18, 2007

A 2nd Infantry Division soldier was sentenced Tuesday to 10 months confinement and a bad conduct discharge for stealing money and debit cards.

During a special court martial at Camp Casey, Pvt. James Box, B Battery, 6th Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment, pleaded guilty to seven theft charges and one count each of using marijuana, conspiracy, and falsifying an official statement.

Twice in June, Box and others used a master key to open the lockers at Hansen Field House and steal debit cards, cash and an iPod from wallets stored there in June.

Box told Judge (Col.) Donna Wright that one of his accomplices, Pvt. Charles Presnell, got the key from a field house employee who had loaned it to him to open a locker.

During the first incident, on June 17, Box said he acted as a lookout while Presnell, his former roomate, stole debit cards and cash that were later used to buy such items as a Play Station Portable, cigarettes and an iPod, at the Camp Casey Post Exchange.

The two soldiers returned to the field house five days later and Box stole cash and a debit card to finance a night out clubbing in Tokori, a town outside Camp Hovey.


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