Concord resident Ross Anthony Farca was charged in a criminal complaint with making a false statement to a government agency, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson.
In a complaint filed November 19, Farca, 23, of Concord, was charged with making a false statement on an online background check application in his bid to join the U.S. Army. According to the complaint, on June 22, 2017, Farca traveled to a U.S. Army Recruitment Center in Mountain View, where he completed and submitted the background check application, also known as an SF-86.
The complaint suggests that evidence of Farca’s false statements on the SF-86 was obtained during the June 10, 2019, search of his home.
The complaint describes several messages Farca allegedly posted using his online name “Adolf Hitler (((6 MILLION)))” about carrying out a mass shooting of synagogues and praising terrorists who have perpetrated recent mass shootings at houses of worship. During the search of Farca’s home, paperwork relating to his psychiatric condition and his military service discharge were found.
Officers from the Concord Police Department executed warrants to arrest Farca and to search his home while investigating messages Farca posted on an online video game website.
The SF-86 contains language specifically warning that falsifying or concealing a material fact on the application is a felony which may result in fines or imprisonment. In this case, the criminal complaint alleges that Farca nevertheless knowingly made false statements about his mental health when completing the form. Specifically, he stated that he had not received mental health treatment, which the complaint alleges was not true.
According to the complaint, Farca had been in regular contact with a psychiatrist since 2011. In addition, Farca allegedly had received prescriptions for various medications and had received treatments to manage his mental disorders. Further, according to the complaint, Farca understood that because of his diagnosis, he needed a letter of clearance from a mental health professional before he would be qualified to enlist in the army. The complaint alleges that Farca requested a letter of clearance from both his psychiatrist and a caseworker familiar with his condition; both mental health professionals, however, denied Farca’s request for a clearance letter. The complaint further alleges that when Farca completed the SF-86, rather than admit he had been seeing a psychiatrist and that he was unable to obtain a letter clearing him for duty, Farca instead denied he had ever had counseling for his psychological or emotional health.
According to the complaint, Farca reported to basic training on August 28, 2017, and was discharged October 3, 2017. The discharge paperwork cited “failed medical / physical / procurement standards” and noted, “erroneous enlistment; medical condition disqualifying for military service, with no medical waiver approved.”
Farca currently is in federal custody.
If convicted, Farca faces a maximum statutory penalty maximum sentence of five years imprisonment and a fine of $250,000, plus restitution, for each violation.
They used to just kick you out for fraudulent enlistment. Now they want money and jail time.
He’s crazy to think he could get away with that.
BaddaBing
Ban him from being able to join any military branch (or buying a firearm) and leave it at that. No need to imprison him. He’s mentally ill…
I totally agree. Jailing him serves no purpose, and costs taxpayers money. If he had a normal thought process, he wouldn’t be mentally ill.
Lock him up and throw away the key.
“… carrying out a mass shooting …”
Well, on this rare occasion we see documented problems before a mass shooting. Had there been an actual mass loss of life ugly guns would have been blamed.
The mind set, not the implement used, is the problem.
It’s both. Stop it with your one sided nonsense.
Guns and mental illness are a dangerous combination.
I do not understand why you push this hateful and false rhetoric in every one of your posts.
It’s almost like you are required to push a narrative.
Just tryin’ to cure STUPID, one liberal at a time.
Guns are not the issue, mental illness is the problem.
Look up May 18, 1927, Bath Township, Michigan,
there were NO guns involved.
Is it possible to make any kind of rational argument, aside from hurling accusations that it is “hateful,” to refute the position requiring that one considers mental illness driving this problem? The goals of someone intent on such a crime can be successfully accomplished in any number of other ways. If you repeatedly see mentally ill murdering others with a variety of weapons, you can conclude the problem arises out of the mental illness, not the availability of a weapon.
It’s like saying that, if one child in a classroom throws his pencil and in so doing hurts another child, you must take all the children’s pencils away to stop the activity. Then, when someone disagrees and says, instead, find a way to identify children given to throwing pencils, you call them “hateful.” It simply doesn’t make any sense snd accomplishes nothing. This fallback position in your argument of calling those who disagree with your faulty logic “hateful” is worn out, meaningless, and an attempt at emotional manipulation.
Self defense is not murder.
Disarming the public is prelude to government tyrany. You are a fool if you think a government with absolute power would not be an attraction for corrupt people. Concord is the perfect example with its exorbitant pensions and salaries for a select few in key positions. They even give themselves raises.
Concord used to be a nice place to live for lower and middle incomes. We are now a part of the Metropolis…along with its problems.
Yogurt says has he pushes his false narrative in every post.
I started reading the story and then thinking that wow you guys were shaming a mentally unhealthy person. But the story just kept getting worse and worse. This guy needs more than five years in prison he needs 15 years in a mental health institution
East County Today ran His mugshot……The Eyes have it !
If you guys read and understand the article it’s clear that the arrest for lying is being used as a tool to prevent a worse crime. Most people who lied on application would just be denied/removed/banned and not arrested. Just like nailing mobsters for tax offenses, they likely would not be successful in prosecuting the other things he’s done so they do what they can.
Being Jewish and a former law enforcement officer, this person was high on my list of priorities. Happy that the Feds finally decided to make a case against him, he was out on bail on state charges.
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