A U.S. Air Force veteran who fled a charge of possessing sexually explicit images of a child told his lawyer he joined Russia's army, and video appears to show him signing documents in a military enlistment office in Siberia.
Wilmer Puello-Mota, a member of the 66th Security Forces Squadron, speaks during a gate dedication and renaming ceremony at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts, on Oct. 2, 2018. Puello-Mota, a U.S. Air Force veteran and former elected official in …BOSTON — A U.S.
The Associated Press made several calls to Cicilline. A person answering his office phone said he would not make any additional comment.served in the U.S. Air Force and deployed to Afghanistan in 2015, when he was 19, media releases show. He later served with the Massachusetts Air National Guard’s 104th Fighter Wing as a security forces airman.
Videos surfaced on Russian social media and local television in March showing the blurred image of a man in a uniform in what appears to be a war zone displaying the U.S. flag.talks directly to the camera, speaking in English over background music and Russian subtitles and discussing a military operation. His face is not blurred. He does not say his name, and the videos do not mention the Rhode Island criminal case.
“While the state cannot verify the authenticity of the videos and photographs, if they are accurate the defendant is well beyond the jurisdiction of this court and, if false, the defendant is engaged in an elaborate ruse to conceal his whereabouts,” Rhode Island prosecutors said.The most recent video appears to show Puello-Mota entering a building in Khanty-Mansiysk and shaking the hand of a uniformed man. At the end of the video, he is seen signing a document.
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