A 23-year-old U.S. Marine, formally stationed at Camp Pendleton is in custody after investigators claim he was stealing weapons of war, transporting them to Arizona and selling them.
Corporal Andrew Paul Amarillas, was working as an ammunition technician specialist at the School Infantry-West at Camp Pendleton, where he had access to restricted military weapons, explosives and ammunition.
In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona last week, a grand jury indicted the 23-year-old, alleging he stole a Javelin missile system and cans of ammunition that he then sold to a network of co-conspirators. Authorities say lot numbers show the weapons were signed out by the corporal.