OCALA — The Marion County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Air Force have provided more details on the accused military deserter who was apprehended on Tuesday.
Deputies and several U.S. Air Force special agents, according to a Sheriff’s Office report, met at the intersection of West State Road 40 and Southwest 80th Avenue. There, agents told deputies they had an arrest warrant for Linley Benson Lemburg for leaving the U.S. Air Force in 1972. Military agents also told the deputies that Lemburg lived nearby and that he goes by the name William Michael Robertson.
After the briefing, deputies and the military agents went to Lemburg’s home at 7847 SW Fifth Place in the The Falls subdivision, a 55-plus community near West Port High School. Lemburg was detained without incident after they saw him on his morning walk roughly two blocks from his home.
In custody, Lemburg asked his wife to give deputies his driver’s license, which had the name William Michael Robertson. The agent placed Lemburg in a vehicle that transported him to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, where he was fingerprinted. His fingerprints matched prints he gave the military decades ago, according to the report.
Once a judge reviewed a search warrant, Lemburg’s home was searched. After the search, Lemburg was transported to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.
On Wednesday, MacDill officials issued the following statement:
“The MacDill AFB Office of Special Operations apprehended Linley Benson Lemburg (alias: William Michael Robertson) on March 21, on charges of desertion, which is a crime that falls under the UCMJ Article 86, Absence without leave. As the closest military installation to where Lemburg was found, MacDill AFB authorities are investigating the allegations associated with Mr. Lemburg’s case, which is still under investigation. At this time, he is being held by MacDill officials on base until the pending trial (AKA Courts Martial) no more investigative information can be released.
Also on Wednesday, U.S. Air Force spokesman Wayne Amann provided details on Lemburg’s military service.
Lemburg, he noted in an email, served as an “Air Force Office of Special investigations Special Agent from 1968 until his desertion” on Feb. 14, 1972. Amann said he was serving in Philadelphia.
“This case,” Amann wrote, “originated from the Investigations Collections and Operations Nexus Cold Case unit.”
Lemburg is being held at MacDill pending court martial, Amann said.
Neighbors who live near Lemburg in the quiet community had nothing but praise for Lemburg. They described as a quiet and helpful, noting he would do anything for anyone. One neighbor said Lemburg would clean the gutters for those who could not do it themselves and would not charge them. Another said he would display flags at different seasons in front of his residence. Others said Lemburg worked at Home Depot for a time.
Some said they feel he should be released.
A woman who answered the door to Lemburg’s home Wednesday declined to comment.
— Contact Austin L. Miller at 867-4118, austin.miller@starbanner.com or @almillerosb.
http://www.ocala.com/news/20170322/report-suspected-deserter-nabbed-during-morning-walk
This guy served from 1968 to 1972. His commitment to the military had to be close to completed.
They’ll crucify the poor guy, I’m sure, and make an example of him. “Mr. Lemberg, how does spending the rest of your miserable life in the crowbar motel sound?” Conscientious objectors were forgiven but deserters who conscientiously objected aren’t. Yes, those “baby killers” had to complete their tour of murder, torture, rape, and pillage. Good thing we’ve learned from that experience so we won’t make the same mistakes again. (Sarcasm)
What the hell are they going to prove by putting this guy on trial? Oh, that’s right, it’s a grand opportunity to show what happens when you defy the empire!
45 years ago?
Get over it already jeeeze
I think the window of opportunity to screw this guy is way past its born on date
My Fellow Americans:
SO!,… they can get someone 45 years after-the-fact for supposedly deserting,… but still CANNOT get the Clinton’s, Bush’s, Eric Holder, or any other of Zionist-commie SOB’s for TREASON.
Yeah,.. the system working EXACTLY as it should.
JD – US Marines: I don’t know how much more proof anyone needs that there is NO Legitimate Gov’t,…. only an EFIO,.. Enemy-Force-In-Occupation in disguise,…. and not a terribly good disguise either.
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If I had been stationed in Philadelphia (or Cleveland) I would have deserted too!!!!
No sympathy from me. He’s a loser. An AFOSI agent stationed in Philadelphia? That must have been tough compared to the high schoolers getting drafted and sent to Nam.
“There, agents told deputies they had an arrest warrant for Linley Benson Lemburg for leaving the U.S. Air Force in 1972.”
Air Force?
Then he obviously wasn’t drafted.
He did this to himself.