Optics, lasers and radios: 3 charged in $2 million Fort Hood heist
By Rachel Nostrant
Mar 28, 11:31 AM
U.S. troops inventory AN/PEQ-15s during a maintenance stand down. (Lance Cpl. Isaac Velasco/DoD)
Army veteran Jessica Elaintrell Smith allegedly drove onto Fort Hood twice on June 16, 2021, first at 8:23 p.m. and again at 9:04 p.m.
She used her status as a disabled veteran to get on base, and knew her way around after having served there until her discharge in 2016. It was there that she met up with fellow veteran Brandon Dominic Brown, according to court documents filed after a probe by the Department of Homeland Security and Army Criminal Investigation Division.
Base security footage showed Brown arriving separately at 9:19 p.m., wearing all black. Brown, who had been discharged from the Army in 2019, had access to the base through his job as a contractor, but had not been scheduled to work that night.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2022/03/28/optics-lasers-and-radios-3-charged-in-2-million-fort-hood-heist/
