A federal jury in El Paso, Texas, convicted a former soldier of stealing more than 200 pallets of Meals-Ready-to-Eat (MREs) from Fort Bliss, according to the Justice Department. The total value of the stolen MREs was $1,120,000.
Details of the Scheme
The former soldier, 47-year-old Joseph Lavar Davis, worked in food service supply while in the Army and later as a civilian contractor. He used this knowledge to steal the MREs from Fort Bliss between February and August 2020. Davis made fake requests, rented trucks to transport the MREs, and negotiated prices for their sale.
In August 2020, the FBI and the Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division searched a warehouse in El Paso and found 100 MRE pallets. The owner of the company using the warehouse had bought the meals from people who stole them from Fort Bliss.
Original reporting: El Paso News (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
