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Jerry Texiero, Accused of Desertion After 40 Years (Tampa Bay 10)

From the NY Times, Man Charged With Deserting Marines in 1965 ("A man has been charged in Tarpon Springs with deserting the Marine Corps 40 years ago to avoid being sent to Vietnam, the police said. The man, Jerry Texiero, left his unit in California in 1965, the police said. Mr. Texiero, now 64, had been living under an assumed name, Gerome Conti, since at least the mid-1980s, the police said. Under that name, Mr. Texiero had been serving 20 years' probation after pleading no contest to fraud charges in the mid-1990s, officials said. The Marine Corps contacted his probation officer on Tuesday and said his fingerprints matched those of a deserter.").

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