Posted on 04/06/2024 8:42:09 AM PDT by Alter Kaker
A former Air National Guardsman has allegedly defected and joined the Russian army in its fight against Ukraine, according to the Rhode Island attorney general's office.
Wilmer Puello-Mota, 28, a former security forces technical sergeant with the Massachusetts Air National Guard, allegedly fled the country in response to a pending criminal case against him for possession of child pornography. Social media posts claim he volunteered with the Russian military and fought against Ukrainians in a fierce battle for a key eastern city.
"We are aware Mr. Puello-Mota left the country in response to civil criminal charges filed against him," Don Veitch, a spokesperson for the 104th Fighter Wing in Massachusetts, told Military.com in an email.
The charges, which Veitch called "very serious," led to Puello-Mota's separation from the Guard in October 2022. "Criminal activity is not compatible with our values as an organization and will not be tolerated in our ranks," he said.
Before joining the National Guard, Puello-Mota served in the active-duty Air Force, also as a security forces airman, according to an Air Force press release about the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing's 2015 deployment to Afghanistan.
Puello-Mota was charged in 2020 with possession of child pornography after allegedly soliciting nude photos from a teenager, legal documents show. He was a city councilman in the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts, from January 2022 to January of this year through most of the legal proceedings stemming from the charge.
According to court documents provided to Military.com by the office of the Rhode Island attorney general, Puello-Mota was last known to be in Istanbul, Turkey. He boarded a flight Jan. 7, two days before he was supposed to be in court regarding the child pornography charges, departing from Dulles International Airport in Virginia for Turkey.
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He should have stayed here. Once they found he was a pedo I’m sure Biden would find a cabinet position for him. Just not little girls, Biden wants to save those for himself.
Does that mean that Pedo Joe could defect to the Russians? Nah, he’s already assuming the Buttigeig position to Premier Zi.
Oh yes. Those Ruskies love them some pedos/s
Just how easy is it to defect?
I heard on the radio the “child” was 17 years old.
They just elected one as their President!
What’s up with the Mass ANG? Didn’t the little twirp, that leaked to all his gamer buddies, classified information, come from there?
Nonsense. Not a Russian value. Although a 17 year old showing her breasts doesn’t count as child porn to most.
Too bad. Our military needs people like him since decent people were ejected for having a conscience. I’m sure putin will send him back.
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