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    Navy SEALs, Marines Charged With Green Beret Logan Melgar’s Murder

    Navy SEALs, Marines Charged With Green Beret Logan Melgar’s Murder

    The victim allegedly discovered SEALs in Mali were stealing money from an informant fund and soliciting prostitutes.

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    The military has formally charged two Navy SEALs and two special-operations Marines in one of the most grisly cases of fratricide in recent U.S. history, The Daily Beast has learned.
    Two members of elite SEAL Team Six, Petty Officer Anthony E. DeDolph and Chief Petty Officer Adam C. Matthews, along with two Marine Raiders face charges that include felony murder, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, burglary, hazing, and involuntary manslaughter in the strangulation death of a Green Beret, Army Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar. All four were charged with felony murder and with lying to investigators.

    The charges were proffered against the four on Wednesday, according to the Navy. A preliminary hearing in military court is scheduled for December 10.
    Melgar, assigned to the 3rd Special Forces Group, was killed in the West African nation of Mali in June 2017, as first reported by the New York Times.




    The Marine Raiders’ names have not been made public. All four names are redacted to the public on the formal charge sheet.
    According to the charges, the alleged conspirators “drove to the Marine quarters” in Bamako, Mali “to obtain duct tape,” then drove to the shared Army/Navy headquarters, “entered the bedroom of SSG Melgar by breaking through his locked door,” restrained him with the duct tape, and “strangled SSG Melgar by placing him in a chokehold.”
    In May, NBC News reported that two Marine Raiders were under investigation in the now-concluded Naval Criminal Investigative Service inquiry into Melgar’s strangulation. Last week, the U.S. Naval Institute’s news division reported that the Navy had ordered a one-star admiral, Rear Adm. Charles Rock, to determine if the four would face charges.
    “If these allegations of misconduct are substantiated, they represent a violation of the trust and standards required of all service members,” Navy Captain Jason Salata, the director of communications for the U.S. Special Operations Command, told The Daily Beast. “We trust our service members to safeguard our nation’s most sensitive interests and to do so with honor.”
    The Daily Beast has learned new details of the grim prelude to Melgar’s death.
    There was an ongoing disagreement between the Green Beret and DeDolph over the SEALs’ professionalism, a source familiar with the episode told The Daily Beast. Melgar was upset with lapses in operational security, according to a source familiar with the investigation’s findings. DeDolph and Matthews, both members of SEAL Team Six, were soliciting prostitutes and taking them back to the safe house in Bamako, Mali’s capital city. As The Daily Beast reported last year, Melgar had found the SEALs skimming cash from a fund to recruit informants about local Islamist activity.
    “The place ran like a frat house,” the source said.
    Melgar was part of a six-man intelligence operation in Mali supporting counterterrorism efforts against al-Qaeda’s local affiliate, known as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Melgar reported the violation to his chain of command, drawing the ire of the SEALs and two Marine Raiders, who were also on the team assigned to assist with counterterrorism.
    Then on June 4, 2017, Melgar was invited to an embassy party, and the rest of the team was not. While Melgar was gone, the two SEALs and two Marine Raiders plotted to haze Melgar for the slight, according to the source familiar with the investigation’s findings.
    “They planned for hours,” the source familiar with the investigation report said.

    “The alleged conspirators ‘entered the bedroom of SSG Melgar by breaking through his locked door,’ restrained him with duct tape, and ‘strangled SSG Melgar by placing him in a chokehold.’”

    DeDolph and Matthews, along with the two Marine Raiders, allegedly confronted Melgar at the safehouse around 5 a.m. DeDolph, a mixed-martial arts fighter, put Melgar in a chokehold. The attackers and Melgar fell onto the bed with Matthews on top of Melgar, according to a source familiar with the inquiry.
    DeDolph realized Melgar wasn’t breathing, according to a preliminary investigation report first reported by NBC News. The SEALs tried to resuscitate Melgar with CPR and opened a hole in his throat. They then took Melgar, along with another Fort Bragg-based Green Beret, to a French medical facility, where he was pronounced dead.
    At the clinic, DeDolph admitted to an embassy official he choked Melgar, according to NBC News and subsequent reports.
    After the SEALs returned to the safehouse, they engaged in a cover-up, according to several witnesses – including cleaning up evidence and coaching witnesses. The charge sheet accuses the members of the conspiracy with “providing a false timeline of events to the Navy chain of command,” and “purposefully” left out the duct tape when making their statements on Melgar’s death. They as well allegedly “disposed of the alcohol” they kept in the shared Army-Navy quarters, and lied to investigators.
    A source told The Daily Beast last year that the SEALs filed at least one operational report about the incident and possibly two. At least one of the reports included an account that Melgar was drunk. But Melgar did not drink alcohol, and a toxicology report showed no alcohol in Melgar’s system.
    U.S. Special Operations Command’s Salata said the command honored Melgar’s memory and kept Melgar’s loved ones in its thoughts. He pledged unity amongst the U.S.’ elite forces amidst an episode that has sent shockwaves through the special-operations world.
    “We will not allow allegations or substantiated incidents of misconduct erode decades of honorable accomplishments by the members of U.S. Special Operations Command. Ours is a culture of professionalism and accountability, which prides itself in being a learning organization that uses critical self-examination in a relentless dedication to improvement,” Salata said.

    Document of charges at the page link

    “The standards expected of special operations are high in every aspect of life. Trust and accountability are the foundational requirements of all service members when conducting our nation’s most complex, sensitive, and high risk operations. We hold ourselves and each other accountable on a daily basis because we know that lives are on the line.”
    Logan Melgar’s wife, Michelle, was briefed on the case earlier this month in Norfolk, Virginia, and again this week at Fort Bragg, according to sources. She declined to discuss the case in detail with The Daily Beast, but said she supports the prosecutor and that her goal was to not allow the incident to cause a rift between the Special Forces and SEALs and Marine Raiders.
    “While I have faith that the military court will handle this situation in the best possible way, I also understand that the mission continues,” she said. “Our men must work well together, and we need to support them in doing so.”

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    REVEALED: Navy SEALs and Marines charged in the strangling death of US soldier in Mali 'had been drinking heavily on the night he was killed and had feuded with him over 'frat-like' behavior that got them banned from Embassy parties'


    • New details emerge in the 2017 death of Staff Sgt Logan Melgar in Bamako, Mali
    • Two SEAL Team 6 members and two Marines were charged with the murder
    • Investigators say they burst into Melgar's room, duct taped and choked him
    • Court documents have revealed a feud that brewed between the service men
    • Melgar lived with the SEALs and accused them of bringing prostitutes home
    • SEALs had banned him from their operations center for alleged 'frat-like' acts
    • On night he died Melgar enraged the men by ditching them for Embassy party
    • The service members face charges of murder, hazing and obstruction of justice


    By Keith Griffith and Megan Sheets For Dailymail.com
    Published: 10:46 EDT, 17 April 2019 | Updated: 11:49 EDT, 17 April 2019
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    New details have emerged in the case of two Navy SEALs and two Marines who are charged in the strangling death of a U.S. Army soldier in Mali.
    Staff Sgt Logan Melgar, 34, died from asphyxiation on June 4, 2017 in the home in Bamako that he shared with the two SEAL Team 6 members accused of killing him and covering up the incident.
    The SEALs are Petty Officer 1st Class Anthony E. DeDolph and Chief Petty Officer Adam C. Matthews. Accused of participating in the slaying are Marines Gunnery Sgt. Mario *Madera-Rodriguez and Staff Sgt. Kevin Maxwell, were assigned to Marine Corps Special Operations Command.
    The service members face charges that include murder, hazing and obstruction of justice.
    Now, the long-simmering feud between Melgar and his SEAL housemates has been revealed in U.S. military documents reported by the Washington Post.

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    Two US Navy SEALs and two Marines have been charged in the 2017 death of Army Green Beret Logan Melgar (pictured) while they were stationed in the African country of Mali

    Melgar, assigned to the 3rd Special Forces Group, detested his Navy housemates and accused them of bringing prostitutes back to the safe house and skimming cash from a fund used to pay local informants, the Daily Beast previously reported.
    'I freaking hate them,' Melgar told his wife Michelle in one of the messages she handed over to authorities.
    The SEALs had their own beef with Melgar though, according to the documents.

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    Petty Officer 1st Class Anthony E. DeDolph (above) is one of the four men charged

    In the weeks leading up to the assault, Melgar brought foreigners to the residence, angering his fellow troops, another soldier who also lived there later told Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents, according to the military documents.
    The soldier also said that Melgar had engaged in 'frat-like' behavior and had acted in ways that got them both 'uninvited' from events at the U.S. Embassy.
    The soldier also confessed that everyone in the safe house engaged in drinking, in contravention of military regulations for deployed troops.
    The soldier told investigators that the SEALs became so incensed with Melgar that they banned him and another Special Forces soldier from their operations center.
    On the night Melgar died, the soldier said that he incited the SEALs' fury by ditching them on the way to a party at the French Embassy.
    He claims that when Melgar returned to the safe house a few hours later, he boasted that he had made the right decision leaving the Navy men behind, because it had been a 'high class' event.
    The soldier said that Melgar said he had two or three beers at the Embassy party. It was previously reported that Melgar didn't drink alcohol.
    The furious SEALs went out on the town for a night of heavy drinking, and hatched a plan for revenge over whiskey and beer at the Appaloosa bar and a nightclub called Byblos, according to the documents.
    According to documents, the SEALs decided to haze Melgar as payback, and enlisted the help of the Marines who lived nearby.

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    Two Special Operation sources alleged that Melgar (above) was targeted because he'd discovered the pair of SEALs were skimming off of the top of an informant fund

    The Marines retrieved some duct tape and a sledgehammer from their residence, planning to burst through Melgar's door to 'surprise him', Matthews stated in a stipulation of facts effectively admitting to his involvement.
    DeDolph, a former professional mixed-martial-arts fighter and a Purple Heart recipient, jumped on Melgar and put him in a chokehold on his bed sometime after 5am, two of the men later told authorities.
    Matthews, the other SEAL, grabbed Melgar’s legs, while the two Marines sought to duct-tape them, according to the confessions.
    As they moved to duct tape Melgar's hands, they realized he wasn't breathing. The troops began performing CPR and retrieved a defibrillator, and performed an emergency procedure on Melgar's throat to open his airway.
    They decided there was no time for an ambulance and took Melgar to a clinic, where he was pronounced dead.
    According to the Military Times, DeDolph and Matthews initially told investigators they found Melgar unresponsive in his room.
    Meglar's superiors suspected foul play and dispatched an investigating officer to the scene within 24 hours.
    The SEAL pair then tried to cover their involvement by telling superiors that Melgar was drunk during combat training - or hand-to-hand fighting exercises - and that is how he got himself knocked out and killed.
    Brig. Gen Donald Bolduc, who is the Commander of the Special Ops Command-Africa, was allegedly skeptical of the SEALs stories and the initial reports about Melgar's death, and told commanders in Mali to preserve any evidence.
    Melgar's wife Michelle was apparently also suspicious, three sources told the Daily Beast.
    She approached commanders about her concerns regarding his cause of death and allegation that he had been drinking.
    She also gave investigators the emails her husband sent her about the problems he was having with the two SEALs.
    Melgar, who was from Lubbock, Texas, served two tours in Afghanistan.
    He graduated from Texas Tech in 2006, and enlisted in the Army in 2012 as an off-the-street Special Forces recruit. He graduated from Special Forces Qualification in 2016.

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