WAR CASUALTY Items stolen from home of Marine
The suspects have a prior criminal record.
BRIDGEPORT, Pa. (AP) -- Two men burglarized the empty apartment of a Marine reservist who died in Iraq, later trading his computer for heroin and his video games for cash, police said.
Cpl. John Todd, 25, of Bridgeport was one of three Marines killed last month when a roadside bomb exploded in eastern Baghdad.
Based on information from informants, police obtained a store surveillance tape that allegedly shows suspects Kevin M. Selvoski, 24, of Bridgeport, and Robert A. Coulson, 26, of Swedesburg, selling the computer games for $159, according to court documents.
The men, who were arrested Saturday, were being held in the Montgomery County prison on $350,000 bail each after a judge cited their previous criminal records.
According to court documents, an informant saw Selvoski place the computer in the back of a car.
Selvoski and a relative took the computer Thursday to Philadelphia and Selvoski returned from the city with heroin, according to a criminal complaint.
Family members found Todd's apartment ransacked last week and reported a computer, a Sony PlayStation, video games and a camera missing.
The attack on Todd's unit, which also wounded two Marines, was the first assault on U.S. forces after the transfer of sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government. A newlywed, Todd was serving his second deployment to Iraq.
About 400 people attended his funeral Wednesday at St. Augustine Church in Bridgeport.
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