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quick question - but why would DHS be involved on a commercial tube theft involving an internal employee? thoughts?

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quick question - but why would DHS be involved on a commercial tube theft involving an internal employee? thoughts?

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quick question - but why would DHS be involved on a commercial tube theft involving an internal employee? thoughts?

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Can someone also help put the pieces together how an itt employee stealing from its employer was also stealing photonis tubes as stated in the OP and that started this whole thing?

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but they were commercial grade tubes sold or traded to a commercial entity, not the gov. does asu-nvg professionally refurb mil aviation goggles?

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Just a guess, but would it be possible that he was taking mil-tubes and “rebranding” as commercial units?

Also, it is not uncommon for companies to buy the products of competitors to see how they stand up to your own products and reverse engineer them..

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quick question - but why would DHS be involved on a commercial tube theft involving an internal employee? thoughts?

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https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwuw03pn1bb/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

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He doesn't do business or sell anything haha.

He just makes memes

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Any updates from people who got an email?

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wow, that is in really poor taste.  i've sent glynn quite a bit of business through the past few years. guess that'll be stopping.

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I talked to Hunter yesterday.   He wanted to know if I (1) Bought anything from him, (2) Still had records of any communications, (3) had the serial numbers for the tubes I bought.   He just wanted an email from me detailing that stuff. Told new there are over 100 people he sold stolen stuff to.

Im definitely super excited to have an empty sentinel assembly with no way to replace the tubes Fuck thieves

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wow, that is in really poor taste.  i've sent glynn quite a bit of business through the past few years. guess that'll be stopping.

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My understanding is that he used to work for ITT - he is listed on the Patent for Curved MCP Channels..., but recently worked for ASU-NVG, who was the employer/victim in this situation. The more I read up on ASU-NVG, the more jealous I am that this guy threw away a perfectly good career in a field I find incredibly interesting.

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The chances of buying stolen equipment on the secondary market has been a known factor.

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wow, that is in really poor taste.  i've sent glynn quite a bit of business through the past few years. guess that'll be stopping.

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Anyone know if he was selling anywhere else online?

I'm an admin for the biggest gear group on FB. If he's in our group our admin group would like to know.

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I particularly like how he mentions small vendors in his post of people you should avoid because of this but he himself is also a small vendor. Go figure.

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This story is about how buying NV Intensifiers second hand almost cost me $2500 and a visit from the G-Man.

I purchased my tubes from a poster here on Arfcom. I’ve been advised by EE staff member tenewel that I can reveal the seller was Lamneth. If anyone has dealt with him do not post his real world information.

He had an old ad for a Photonis XR5 in WP for about a grand. I checked with him and he said he had sold it, but he had 2 Photonis 4G Intens that he would sell me for $1200 ea. After thinking about it, I guessed they were likely Echos and I decided that wasn't a bad price for Echos.

So, I bought them. Being me, I checked with Photonis to see if they could tell me more about the tubes.

They quickly contacted me and told me they were super tubes, sold to the Army under an expiremental basis. So he said they were probably stolen.

Naturally, I got a little freaked. I contacted the seller and he said he traded for them at Knob Creek. Even offered to buy them back if I wanted to. Made me feel a lot better. I had literally just read his email when I got a call from Photonis that they weren’t what they said originally they were. The tubes were actually sold to an Aviation/NV Company and might have legitimately been junked. Naturally, I felt better about the entire thing.

Then a week later, I get a call from Photonis that the Aviation NV company thinks they might have been stolen from them. Said they have an employee with a very similar name as that given to me by the seller (some of this paragraph may not be exactly as I was told it, as when I first spoke to the NV company, I had just gotten home and fallen asleep after working all night the night before).

The Aviation NV company contacted me and confirmed this. Apparently they’re Aviation Grade 4G Intens that were intentionally beat to crap in test units (image is still very nice though). I gave them the PM and email chain and explained that I had zero reason during the original purchase to think that they might be stolen as I assumed they would be Echos or similar. I told them I’ll hold onto the tubes, but I’d like to see a police report before I would mail the tubes back to the company. However, I won’t be having anyone make Duals out of them. I’ll just hold onto them until contacted by police or FBI, at which point I’ll gladly turn them over. $2500 ain’t worth going to prison over.

PayPal ruled in my favor on the dispute and returned my funds. I informed the NV company that the $ was returned to me by PP and I’d send the tubes if they’d write up something basically saying that they knew I had acted in good faith.

The NV Company has offered to reward me by sending me a pair of used Anvis 9s that someone traded in for the latest and greatest (i accepted and they’re supposed to ship today or Monday). I’ve already returned the Photonis tubes and have a letter from the Aviation NV company saying that I’ve acted in good faith and my actions helped lead to the arrest of a US Gov contract employee who stole the tubes.

My guess is they’ve noticed multiple things missing over a long time period and this helped them catch the guy.

My plan is to take the $ that was returned to me and have the tubes put into RNVGs or Sentinels.

So, there it is kiddos. Be careful out there in the secondary market!!

Update: I have tracking number! NVG inbound! WHOOOOOTIEWHOOOTWHOOOOOT!

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@lilMAC25

wow - sometimes a good deal might not be so good eh?
What happens when the guy gets out of prison - would he come looking for you or is he not the one that sold them to you?

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i'm working on my email to Hunter.

anyone that paid by PP, have you done a claim?