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December 13th, 2011 By COREY PEIN | News | Posted In: Business, Tech, Cops and Courts

Corvallis Man In eBay Arms Case Was Three-Tour Army Veteran

geoff roose oregon national guardGeoffrey B. Roose of Corvallis was arrested for allegedly selling stolen military rifle scopes on eBay. - Oregon Army National Guard
As several news outlets reported last week, Geoffrey B. Roose of Corvallis faces 10 years in prison for allegedly selling stolen military rifle scopes on eBay.

Previous accounts left out many key facts of the case, including colorful details such as Roose's eBay username: "mr.f.u.up.

As of today, a week after his arrest, the U.S. Army veteran's eBay store remains online—with 100 percent positive feedback

In a sting detailed in court documents, Homeland Security agents in Seattle posed as Romanian buyers, paying Roose $1,700 for a restricted combat scope allegedly stolen from the Army. 

Investigators plumbed Roose's email accounts and found three previous sales of restricted weapons to overseas buyers. In one email, Roose defended himself thus: 
"I spent three tours overseas and it isn't my responsibility to police the world… There is more government property wasted in a dumpster overseas than you will ever see on ebay." 
State court records show that Roose's ex-wife requested a restraining order against him during their divorce in 2009. 

Roose's Facebook page—public as of this writing—has a gallery titled "Justifiable legal Armament," showing off his gun collection and photos from deployments to Iraq, Japan and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. 

Accused eBay arms trader Geoff Roose showed off his gun collection on Facebook.


In a Dec. 4 post, two days before his arrest, Reese wrote that he was, "as usual…kinda bored, looking through ebay, and found some[t]hing I would spend $100,000.00 on..."  

This:

Accused eBay arms trader Geoff Roose admired this "interesting original painting."

 

On Dec. 7, a federal judge in Eugene ordered Roose released pending trial. Read the original federal complaint against Roose here.

 
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12.14.2011 at 12:38 Reply
PR

Oh man... MR. FU.UP is going to be going away for a while to a PMITA prison for illegally possessing a M16 lower receiver (a class-III NFA item), and an M203 grenade launcher (another class-III NFA item).  There is the distant outside possibility that he bought them, but considering what else he stole (the Trijicon combat sight) my bet is those are stolen as well.

Not sure how prisons like people who are basically aiding and abetting foreign terrorists.

 

12.25.2011 at 10:56 Reply
SY

PR - Funny, nothing in this article stated anything about stolen weapons. Nor have I seen any other articles about Mr Roose's arrest stating anyhting about stolen weapons. Quit making stuff up to support your anti-gun position. Mr Roose legally owned Class III weapons - anyone can, they just have to pay the tax and register them. Yes, the original federal complaint did state that the lasers Mr Roose sold on ebay were restricted items, meaning they were probably stolen in some fasion or another. However, according to the federal complaint, Mr Roose legally bought all of the ACOGs prior to selling on ebay. Get your own facts straight and quit making crap up. The article does not match what the federal complaint it references.

 

12.28.2011 at 05:32 Reply
Tim

This article is utter crap.  It is incorrect and the author made most of it up.  Maybe you should be a fiction writer?

 

As the other poster said.  All of the items on the facebook page are LEGAL to own.  

 

TS

 

02.14.2012 at 01:16 Reply
JM

"I spent three tours overseas and it isn't my responsibility to police the world…"

Translation= "I spent several years policing the world but it isn't my job policing the world"

This guy and his batshit crazy GF should not be allowed to own guns. Before you lump me in with anti gun wingnuts, I am VERY Pro Gun, I am just equally ANTI Armed Dumbass!

http://www.12newsnow.com/story/16686940/police-wife-shot-up-husbands-suv-after-fig?clienttype=printable

It still boggles my mind that someone in the military and has actually SERVED can be such a fan of Bush when he never served and actually went AWOL and had his family protect him. 

I hope this tool enjoys his stay in Fed Prison, where he will serve every SINGLE day.

 

 
 

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