ROTC cadet accused of stealing air rifles from Martin County school
June 2nd, 2009 by Ana X. Ceron
James Burgos
STUART — An ROTC cadet was arrested on grand theft charges on Monday after he allegedly stole two air rifles from his high school’s ROTC program.
South Fork High School’s Reserve Officer Training Corps. teacher notified Martin County Sheriff’s deputies that two air rifles were missing from the school’s ROTC armory.
When questioned by a Martin County Sheriff’s deputy on Monday, cadet James R. Burgos admitting at first to taking only one air rifle, according to a sheriff’s report.
After other cadets told investigators that Burgos had also taken the other rifle, Burgos confessed of the second theft, deputies said.
“I was scared,” he allegedly told a deputy.
Burgos’s father returned the rifles to the school, the report states.
Burgos, 18, is a high school senior already enlisted in the U.S. Navy, according to the report.
He is behind held at the Martin County jail in lieu of $5,000 bail.
Tags: air rifles, grand theft, James Burgos, Martin County Sheriff's Office, Reserve Officer Training Corps., ROTC
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June 3rd, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Hopefully, if he gets into the U.S. Navy he won’t steal a carrier with nuclear weapons and blow up his own country. I don’t want him serving my country. He is a risk.
June 4th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
He wouldn’t do anything like that.
He’s my neighbor. No idea why he took them though
June 4th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Hey Chris. do you guys play air rifles together? does it hurt when you get hit? do you like the pain? are you gonna steal him some KY? He looks like a douche. He has bad posture too. Did you give that to him?
July 12th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
dis is my dawg bitches!!!