Former U.S. Army Soldier Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Kill Federal Agent and Informant
By BBC. A former US soldier who allegedly formed an international band of snipers as mercenaries has confessed to a murder plot in New York.
Joseph Hunter, nicknamed Rambo after the hero of the 1980s action films, pleaded guilty to conspiring to kill a federal agent and an informant.
The 49-year-old faces up to 10 years in prison.
He believed he had been working for drug traffickers who were actually working for the US anti-drugs agency.
He is accused of recruiting ex-military snipers with the aim of carrying out murders on behalf of drug organisations. (Read more about the soldier conspiring to kill the federal agent HERE)
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A Family Was Not Told Their Mother’s Death Was a Suicide Until They Saw News Report on Television
By Sheboygan Press Media. The family of a soldier from Kiel who died last year in Kosovo from a gunshot wound had not been informed by military investigators that they had concluded their daughter had committed suicide until they read about it in the Sheboygan Press on Wednesday.
Stars and Stripes newspaper reported Monday that Army Staff Sgt. Heidi Ruh died on May 9, 2014, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo, citing the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command. Stars and Stripes is published by the U.S. Department of Defense.
Ruh’s parents, Catherine and Scott Ruh, who live in rural Newton, learned about it from friends and relatives who read a story that appeared in Wednesday’s Sheboygan Press and online at sheboyganpress.com.
News of the investigation’s conclusion was carried by many other media outlets.
A family relative, who wished to remain anonymous, told the Sheboygan Press Thursday that Ruh’s two sons, who were 8 and 11 when she died, saw the news that their mother had committed suicide while watching TV in Texas, where they live. (Read more from this story HERE)
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