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Army gear is seized in RoswellIThe Associated PressNight vision equipment, flak vests and other military equipment were mailed to the Roswell home of an Army warrant officer, prompting an investigation by the Army and the FBI, court documents show.Search warrant documents filed in federal court in Albuquerque show military equipment was mailed to the home of Warrant Officer Fred Ullrich, who is stationed in Saudi Arabia.Dozens of the items, valued at hundreds of dollars each, were seized from Ullrich’shome and that of a colleague.MaJ. Ruth Nutter, an Army spokeswoman at Fort Bliss, Texas, said she couldn’t comment on the matter as it is under investigation.The documents say the FBI in New Mexico began investigating after an agent was contacted in November by Lou Mallion, commander of the Army National Guard inRoswell.Mallion told the FBI that Ullrich had mailed a set of binoculars and other U.S. government property to a guardsman, the documents say.An investigator from theArmy’s Criminal Investigation Division at Fort Bliss searched the package and found binoculars worth $575, a fragmentation protective vest valued at $250 with a Kevlar insert worth $450 and a chemical suit set worth $500, a search warrant affidavit says.The reservist also said Ullrich wrote him that he had mailed his wife military equipment.Bemita Ullrich told investigators her husband had sent several packages she had put in a storage shed, the affidavit says.Mrs. Ullrich told an investigator Dec. 4 that she told her husband not to send her any more government property, the affidavit says.On Dec. 31, a footlocker addressed to Bemita Ullrich arrived at the Roswell post office.Investigators seized binoculars, space blankets, sleeping bags, canteens, mosquito netting, a medical bag, an ammunition pouch and other items from the footlocker.Mrs. Ullrich said her husband still is in Saudi Arabia.Asked if he had been charged, she said: I don’t know anything about it.”
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Roswell Daily Record
Roswell, New Mexico, US
Wed, Feb 05, 1992
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