"FBI agent reportedly kills Mass. man in Tampa" by Travis Andersen, Globe Staff | May 21, 2010
An FBI agent fatally shot a Massachusetts man Wednesday night in an altercation at an Air Force base in Tampa, an agency spokesman said yesterday.
Dave Couvertier, a spokesman for the FBI, said an agent shot Ronald J. Bullock, 61, of Hanson about 6:30 p.m. at MacDill Air Force Base as he approached the agent with a knife. Bullock was pronounced dead at the scene.
Couvertier said Bullock, an Army veteran, was staying at a campground on the base open to anyone with a valid military ID....
The Tampa Tribune reported yesterday that Bullock, who was living on the campground, sped away from military police on a motorcycle after he was involved in a dispute in the recreational area....
Bullock was convicted in Texas in 1994 on charges of aggravated assault and resisting arrest after police said he confronted officers with a meat cleaver when they responded to a call over a domestic dispute, the newspaper reported....
Then he deserved to be shot dead, right?
"Man arrested at Tampa base was AWOL" by Associated Press | June 16, 2010
TAMPA — An AWOL serviceman arrested as he tried to enter MacDill Air Force Base with weapons and ammunition in his vehicle has been charged with desertion and will be turned over to the Army, base officials reported last night.
Specialist Christopher Paul Kilburn had been stationed with Alpha Company, 1-16th First Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan., a media release from the base said. It did not specify when he left. Kilburn will be turned over to Army officials, and additional charges will be pending as the investigation continues.
The US attorney’s office will decide how to charge Kilburn’s companion, Palm Beach resident Micah Noel Goodier.
The couple was arrested Monday night when they tried to gain access to the base. The base’s public affairs office did not know if either person had an attorney.
Air Force Colonel Dave Cohen said during a news conference yesterday that it doesn’t appear to have been a terrorism attempt.
Investigators were still trying to get to the bottom of the couple’s motivation and intent, Cohen said.
“We’ve been talking to them since last night trying to get information, and we’re still trying to put that puzzle together,’’ he said.
The couple’s
He said the couple tried to drive onto the base at about 5 p.m. at a remote gate and flashed phony military identification. A security officer became suspicious, and the couple cooperated when they were asked by officers to get out of the car.
When the weapons were found, a bomb disposal unit was called to examine the car, Cohen said. No explosives were found.
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What is with our soldiers these days?
"Man seized at Army post had land mine" by Associated Press | June 17, 2010
FORT GORDON, Ga. — A former National Guardsman pretending to be a US Army soldier persuaded an officer to give him a laser sight for military rifles before he was caught hours later on the base with a land mine, several “flash-bang’’ grenades, and night vision devices, prosecutors said yesterday.
Anthony Todd Saxon, 34, was in full combat uniform, including rank and insignia, when military police stopped him Tuesday at Fort Gordon and questioned him about his activities, according to the complaint....
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