National Guard Soldiers Arrested in Looting (Liquor from NOLA home)

[Maddy McCall]

Two Louisiana National Guardsmen were arrested Monday after they were seen carrying boxes of liquor from a flooded home in the affluent Eastover community in eastern New Orleans, police said.

The soldiers were loading the box into the rear cargo area of a Humvee, where two other boxes of apparently purloined alcohol already were stored, officers said.

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Seventh District New Orleans Police Capt. Bob Bardy said the detention of Sgt. Glen Wallace and Sgt. George Babers marks the second time police have stumbled across apparent looting by National Guard soldiers, a dismaying development in a city that remains dependent on military patrols to prevent theft in vast stretches of vacant neighborhoods.

In the first such arrest about four weeks ago, two soldiers were turned over to their superiors after they were seen taking items from a Circuit City store in eastern New Orleans, Bardy said.

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[nunovyurbiznez]

1. Yeah, only NOLA citizens should be allowed to loot

They were the ones attacked by BUSHCO, so it's only fair.

[toopers]

2. Stealing the one thing that won't go bad!

n/t

[SoCalDem]

3. Soldiers have been purloining booze....well.since there have BEEN soldiers

It was not a "good thing", but I'm not sure I would call it LOOTING.. ..

The left behind booze was probably the last thing the owners were worrying about..

That said, they should not have done it.. or maybe they should have been more "careful" when they "saved the booze"