An Associated Press investigation has found that at least 1,900 U.S. military firearms were lost or stolen during the 2010s, with some resurfacing in violent crimes.
The contractor admitted that she and others conspired to steal property from the base in Kandahar in 2015, while a co-conspirator negotiated the sale of the stolen property with a third-country national middleman.
A former civilian employee of the U.S. Defense Department was sentenced to one year in prison for his role in a scheme to illegally sell government property from California military installations, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.