Joshua Philip Yabut Stolen Armored Vehicle Tank Joyride

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June 5, 2018.  Joshua Philip Yabut Stolen Armored Vehicle Tank Joyride National Guard military vehicle stolen from Fort Pickett, Va., on June 5, 2018. Police said they arrested a soldier who stole the armored personnel carrier after chasing him for more than 60 miles.

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Company commander steals armored vehicle from National Guard base, police say army times
By: Denise Lavoie, The Associated Press   June 6   Emergency personnel surround a National Guard military vehicle stolen from Fort Pickett, Va., on June 5, 2018. Police said they arrested a soldier who stole the armored personnel carrier after chasing him for more than 60 miles. (Grace Hollars/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)   RICHMOND, Va. — An Army National Guard officer accused of stealing an armored personnel carrier from a Virginia base said he had permission to take the APC, but Guard officials denied that on Thursday.   personnel carrier was driven away during routine training at Fort Pickett and has been returned to the base  1st Lt. Joshua Philip Yabut, 29, of Richmond, was charged with eluding police and unauthorized use of a vehicle, the Virginia National Guard said in a news release.   has more than 11 years of service. He deployed to Afghanistan from 2008 to 2009 with the Illinois National Guard.

previously worked as a developer for ZenCash, the cryptocurrency company said in a statement Wednesday.  Yabut was a developer in the project’s early stages, and he “intentionally made public a method” of attacking the system, which was a “vulnerability” that he coded in, according to the statement.

Yabut was being held at the Richmond jail. Attempts to reach his defense attorney or family members who could comment on his behalf were not successful.

Yabut seemed to foreshadow the theft and chase in Twitter posts Tuesday. Hours before the vehicle drove off the base, an account confirmed by the Guard as Yabut’s tweeted a Wikipedia entry about the M113 armored personnel carrier, which is similar to the M577 vehicle

[political propaganda]... series of odd tweets Tuesday, including: “where is this damn water buffalo” ″all i wanna do is get an anime wife” and “wow I think I just discovered a large illegal spy operation in the us government.”...  Yabut filed papers to run as an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Tim Kaine.

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Jun 7, 2018 - Army National Guard officer Joshua Philip Yabut is accused of stealing an ... The vehicle, which drives on tracks like a tank, was stolen Tuesday ...

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Jun 6, 2018 - Joshua Philip Yabut, 29, of Richmond, was charged with eluding police ... The vehicle, which drives on tracks like a tank, was stolen Tuesday ...

Soldier Who Stole 'Tank' Was Anti-Social Justice Coder Who Threw ...
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Jun 6, 2018 - But after authorities identified Joshua Philip Yabut as the Fort Pickett soldier involved in the mid-speed chase, his face and name were quickly ..

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Jun 8, 2018 - Once he'd been taken into custody, the state police announced that not only had Yabut stolen a faux-tank, but he was allegedly high



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A stolen armored personnel vehicle on the loose in the Richmond, VA ...
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Bitcoin Cash evangelist accused of joyriding stolen tank - Mashable
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Jun 6, 2018 - Police are chasing a stolen tank in Virginia. pic.twitter.com/5Kbvui3Uuf ... in Blackstone is none other than the 29-year-old Joshua Philip Yabut.



Yabut claims that he was ordered to drive 577 through Richmond ...
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Jun 8, 2018 - Yabut said he was later given the command in coded military .... Folks at Army WTF are amazed that the 577 ran that far. .... I once heard a former armor officer(testifying on an unrelated matter) asked if he “drove” a tank on active duty. ... and complexion indicate Filipino or some similar origin. any chance ...

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Jun 7, 2018 - Virginia National Guard 1st Lt. Joshua Philip Yabut. Click to expand. ... looks like has some Origin: Philippines in him .... Forty years ago an Army guy in Germany stole a tank because he was upset over a girl. Forty years ago ...