NEW: Two U.S. Army soldiers allegedly tried to sell stolen weapons and explosives to Mexican drug cartel
Two U.S. Army explosive ordnance disposal specialists have been indicted over allegations they tried to sell firearms and C-4 explosives bound for Mexico—an issue the U.S. Army attempted to keep quiet since their arrest last November, according to sources.
But late Wednesday night, the rumor was given substance when an EOD specialist found the charge sheet and indictments in the Public Access to Court Electronic Records database, known to lawyers and journalists as PACER. One EOD specialist in the chatroom told Sumlin, “F*** you AND your service. You’re a piece of shit. You betrayed everyone you ever worked with as soon as you tried to sell weapons and explosives to a cartel.”
Jarvis, an active-duty EOD soldier with the 52nd Ordnance Group and assigned to Fort Bragg in North Carolina, is then said to have rented a Chevrolet Tahoe and drove from the Tar Heel State to Inverness, Florida, to meet with Sumlin, a former EOD team leader, according to his Linkedin profile. In the Facebook chatroom Wednesday night, Sumlin told one user that he asked for $250,000, but was talked down to $75,000 and that both him and Jarvis could have received additional charges from the U.S. government.
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