A former US Marine was arrested at Newark Airport after trying to board a flight to Florida with a cache of weapons and a fake US Marshal badge.
Ex-Marine Faces Prison Time For Trying To Board Florida Flight With Cache Of Weapons, Ammunition, And Fake ID
Seretse Clouden, 42, was heading from Newark (EWR) to Fort Lauderdale (FLL) on December 30, 2022. While screening one of his checked bag, TSA agents found a number of high-caliber magazines with ammo and a ballistic vest bearing the words “Deputy Marshal.”
TSA officers then approached the gate and paged Clouden. There, Clouden admitted that he had neither law enforcement credentials a firearms identification card from any state.
Officers then pulled his other bags from the aircraft, and ultimately found three weapons:
- .308-caliber DPMS Panther Arms rifle
- 5.56-caliber AR-15 rifle
- .40-caliber Glock 22 handguns
As agents dug through his bag, they also found:
- a fake US Marshal ID card and badge
- more magazines (the place that stores the ammunition that has not been fired)
- an expandable baton
- an immense amount of ammunition
An inquiry with the United States Marshals Service confirmed that Clouden is not, and was not, employed with the United States Marshal Service.
Clouden faces a maximum prison sentence of 10 years and fine of up to $250,000 for illegally transporting firearms and another 15 years for fraudulent possession of a government identification document.
CONCLUSION
The TSA seizes 18 guns per day on average across US airports. In most cases, it is a harmless matter of someone forgetting to pull a gun out of their bag. This case, with three guns, a number of accoutrements, and even the fake vest and ID badge suggest something more was at play.
They are taking away this man’s 2nd ammendment rights!
Oh wait I just saw his picture, lock him up! Lock him up!
Lol, the USA in a nutshell. Nice
“it is a harmless matter of someone forgetting to pull a gun out of their bag”.
As a European, I can only say “wow” to that!!
He must have read Kyle’s piece on how to fly with guns and got confused.
He was implementing the Rambo self-help kit to get the seat you really want
Thank you for your service.
Simmonad – I’m with you and that WOW! That’s a far-fetched statement to say it’s a harmless matter of someone “forgetting” to pull a gun out of a bag!”……. And I’m a Texan!!
Honestly, how bold and arrogant can someone be to think they can just stroll onto an airplane with all of this (checked or not) ??
Matt
I admit that I never served our country (i.e. the USA since I know you have an international audience), but it was once made clear to me that “once a Marine, always a Marine”…. while the circumstances in this case may ultimately prove different, apparently there is no such thing as an ex-Marine.
Maybe a Marine can clarify this – nevertheless, I deeply appreciate their service to protecting our way of life
…hopefully, we can just say thank you and avoid the politics
-m
Umm, no offense, but you are basically endorsing the idea that an ex Marine is a brain washed dog who needs to be led always? Because, yeah, that’s what you are saying. I personally respect that those coming out of the military do so with a unique understanding of the rule of law and a special compassion for others. Let’s not endorse the idea that they are somehow pushed into the role of a life spent trying to bring multiple weapons and ammunition on board a commercial flight. Because they are not.
He’ll probably plead PTSD and get off with a wrist slap. Similar to OJ getting away with murder and Alex Murdaugh about to get away with double murder and Trump getting away with multiple crimes. Our systems have way to many technicalities and gimmicks which allow the guilty to escape appropriate punishment.
Hilarious that you just say “Trump getting away with multiple crimes” and can’t specify, because nobody has anything on him. The entire Government tried to bring the man down and he’s still living life as a free man, yet people are still generalizing the term like complete morons.
So he’s obviously innocent of the accusations.
So Jog-on Libtard…
Dude posts what is essentially a conservative talking point and gets hit with a “jog on libtard.” Brilliant discourse. Bravo, Dixon!
“conservative talking point” in reality that is called the truth.
Hey Dixon. Thanks for taking the bait, I love owning the Cons. I’ve lived near NYC for many years, aware of Donnie the Douchbag’s/Don the Con’s multiple crimes going back to when he illegally discriminated against minorities for Brooklyn rentals, illegally boosted his casino businesses telling the construction manager to have the bulldozers move dirt from one side of the site to the other to look busy while he was showing investors around, illegally declared multiple business bankruptcies while gaining personal wealth and putting many people out of work, illegally cheated on his taxes declaring one value for loans and another lower value for tax purposes, illegally assaulted many women, illegally paid off a woman to keep quiet, illegally interfered with an election, illegally took classified documents. How’s that for specification. He’s escaped punishment based on technicalities and gimmicks and running out the clock and the same way as Michael Jackson, by paying off his accusers. He’s obviously guilty of all accusations. Big difference between being innocent and not being convicted but the stupid gullible moron bigoted racists (like you) who support him could never understand that. As he said himself, “we love the poorly educated” (like you undoubtedly). Amazing that he has so many supporters when he so obviously couldn’t care less about anyone other than himself and his family. And of course I haven’t even touched on his psychological issues, which are many and deep; including pathologic narcissism, stupidity, sociopathic, immaturity, pathologic liar. Have a nice day, suggest you not drink bleach as your hero has suggested.
Whether he does or does not have PTSD, I am disappointed you, as a physician (giving you the benefit of the doubt) would question and belittle those who suffer from that disease. It’s not a gimmick, and I doubt you’d say that about someone with ovarian cancer, melanoma, pancreatic cancer or any other disease. Mocking a diagnosis and those who suffer from it violates both the principle of beneficence and nonmaleficence, which as a physician you should strive to uphold, regardless of politics.
There are many who fake PTSD, many more than who fake cancer, melanoma or any other disease, just like those who fake the need for a support animal on a flight and those who fake the need for a wheelchair to board only to be miraculously cured during the flight and thus walk off the airplane. As a physician with integrity it’s my duty to identify and differentiate real and faked illness. I wasn’t questioning and belittling those who suffer from PTSD, I was questioning and belittling those who fake PTSD for secondary gains (escaping legal consequences). I could just as easily have written “he’ll probably fake depression or TBI”, writing “he’ll probably melanoma” wouldn’t have made sense. It’s a simple fact that psychiatric illnesses are more easily claimed and/or faked to avoid consequences, as a psychiatrist (giving you the benefit of the doubt) you should know that and be less critical of those who write of it as a possibility.
BTW, nice to see that Murdaugh has since been convicted and sentenced to consecutive life sentences. Perhaps you’d support a defense of “mental incapacitation by way of addictive thinking” and have him sentenced to a year of counseling? Out of an abundance of civility, I won’t get into the debates of psychiatric illness as “real” disease and where psychiatry ranks on the totem pole of medical specialties (it’s clear where you stand on those issues). Maybe I have PTSD and you’re just as guilty of violating the principles of beneficence and non-maleficence (by confronting me in a public forum) as you accuse me of doing.
So was it people or us weekly???