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Second Marine is sentenced for his part in the death of Green Beret
Second Marine is sentenced for his role in the death of Green Beret who was strangled to death during a 'hazing ritual' in Mali after accusing two of his alleged killers of bringing prostitutes back to their safe house
- Army Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar, 34, died of asphyxiation on June 4, 2017, during a 'prank' by two SEALs and two Marines
- Staff Sergeant Kevin Maxwell Jr. pleaded guilty Thursday charges including negligent homicide, hazing and making false official statements
- He was sentenced to four years at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina
- The US Special Forces broke into Melgar's room, planned to choke him into unconsciousness and tie him up with duct-tape, to humiliate him
- Upon noticing Melgar was not breathing after binding his feet, they tried to revive him and later in a clinic he was pronounced dead
- SEAL Chief Petty Officer Adam C. Matthews pleaded guilty to lesser changes in exchange for his testimony and was sentenced to one year in military prison
- New information revealed by Marine Staff Sgt. Kevin Maxwell, claims the group planned to film a sexual assault upon Melgar to embarrass him
Green Beret Army Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar, 34, (pictured) died in Bamako, Mali, as a result of asphyxiation on June 4, 2017
The second Marine has been sentenced for his role in the 2017 death of a Green Beret who died while being hazed in Mali.
Staff Sergeant Kevin Maxwell Jr. pleaded guilty Thursday to charges including negligent homicide, hazing and making false official statement for the death of Logan Melgar in 2017.
Melgar died from asphyxiation in a hazing ritual the others planned to film.
Maxwell, a Virginia pilot, was sentenced Friday to a bad conduct discharge and a reduction in rank to private.
He was sentenced to spend four years at Camp Lejeune, in North Carolina.
Maxwell is the second U.S. service member to be sentenced.
U.S. Navy SEAL Adam Matthews was sentenced in May to a year's confinement and a bad conduct discharge. Navy SEAL Tony DeDolph and Marine Raider Mario Madera-Rodriguez still face charges.
Now new information has emerged from a stipulation facts by Maxwell, and obtained by The Washington Post, which expose a sinister plot intended to embarrass Melgar after a night the four of others went drinking.
The group planned on breaking into Melgar's bedroom with a sledgehammer, choking him until he fell unconscious and tie him up with duct-tape, the report says.
One of the four, SEAL Chief Petty Officer Adam C. Matthews, will spend one year in military prison at Norfolk Naval Station (above).
Then a Malian security guard would sexually assault him while a British man who had befriended the Americans, would film it.
A longstanding feud had gone on between the SEALs and Melgar, after he accused them of bringing prostitutes back to their safe house and taking cash from a fund intended to pay local informants, according to the Daily Beast.
In a message handed over to authorities, he told his wife Michelle: 'I freaking hate them.'
The SEALs had disliked Melgar for engaging in 'frat-like' behavior and had at times caused them to be 'uninvited' from U.S. Embassy events, documents revealed.
They had become so angered by Melgar that they banned him and another Special Forces solider from their operations center.
Melgar accused the SEALS of bringing prostitutes to their safe house
On the night of his death, the SEALs were furious after he ditched them for a party at the French Embassy.
Hours later, one of the soldiers claimed that Melgar boasted about making the right decision as it was a 'high class' event, enraging them further.
Meanwhile the four had hatched a plan while out on a heavy night drinking whiskey and beer at Appaloosa bar, before going onto a nightclub called Byblos - according to documents.
Back at the house, at around 5am they decided to 'surprise him' with the attack Matthews stated in his stipulation of the facts.
It was then that former professional mixed-martial-arts fighter DeDolph, jumped on Melgar and put him in a chokehold on his bed.
Matthews grabbed his legs while the two Marines duct-taped his legs, upon trying to bind his hands together they noticed he wasn't breathing.
The troops began performing CPR, retrieved a defibrillator and tried to re-open his airways with an emergency procedure on his throat.
Deciding that there was no time for an ambulance they rushed him to a clinic, where he was later pronounced dead.
According to released information, Melgar ditched the two SEALs to go to a party at the French Embassy. It was then that the two visited a bar Appaloosa (above) and club Byblos (below), where they hatched a plan to teach him a lesson
On the night of Melgar's death, the two SEALs drank whiskey and beer at Appaloose bar, then went onto nightclub Byblos (above)
Maxwell's testimony sheds further light on the night's events, with the plan to film a sexual assault upon Melgar not previously known.
It was revealed that Maxwell had been on a riverboat cruise with Melgar and other friends the same week of the attack.
The civil defense attorney for Maxwell, Brian Bouffard, said that his client intends to plead guilty to charges including negligent homicide at a court martial at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia.
Bouffard told The Washington Post: 'They committed a prank on Melgar.
'It was a stupid prank, and it was not the kind of prank you or I would want pulled on us. It went bad.
Petty Officer 1st Class Anthony E. DeDolph is one of those involved. He is the only defendant to be pictured and is yet to be sentenced
'Maxwell is eager to accept responsibility for his role in it.'
Matthews pleading guilty to lesser charges on May 16 and was sentenced to one year in military prison by Navy Capt. Michael J. Luken.
Prosecutors agreed to drop the murder charge in exchange for testifying against the other SEAL and two Marines.
He pleaded guilty to conspiracy, unlawful entry, hazing, obstruction of justice and assault with battery.
Luken also demoted Matthews to special operator second class and bad-conduct discharge.
Matthews said: 'I've carried the weight of Staff Sgt. Melgar's death every minute of every day since that night in Mali.
Grover Baxley, Matthews' attorney, described Melgar's death as an 'unforeseen accident' and said it 'dramatically impacted the lives of everyone involved.'
He said that Matthews took 'full responsibility for his role' in the incident and enabled the Navy to resolve the case.
At the time of Matthews's sentencing Melgar's mother, Nitza Melgar, told called him 'a disgrace to your Purple Heart.'
He had received the award among other medals after suffering injuries in Afghanistan.
Melgar's wife, Michelle, in her victim impact statement was 'grateful' to Matthews for 'finally coming forward'.
She said: 'This has been a nightmare that I would never wish on anyone.'
Michelle added that she did not care about the length of his sentence, so long as he is never in a position to commit a similar act again.
'I have hurt enough for everyone, and I’m so very sorry that your family will now have to hurt in a similar way as I have.
'I sincerely hope you make better choices when your day of freedom comes.'
DeDolph and Madera-Rodriguez have not entered pleas and still face court martial.
The Attorney for DeDolph, Philip Stackhouse has rejected the details supplied by Matthews and Maxwell.
In a statement, Stackhouse said: 'We absolutely deny there was any intent to sexually assault Melgar.'
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