Varita V. Quincy, Theft of Government Equipment, Georgia 2020

An American military contractor has been sentenced to 51 months in prison for her role in a theft ring on a military installation in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Varita V. Quincy, 35, of Snellville, Georgia, pleaded guilty on October 13, 2020, to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and commit theft of property of value to the United States and one count of making false statements.

According to court documents, Quincy admitted that, between April 2015 and July 2015, she and others conspired to and did steal property of value to the United States including generators, a truck, and other items worth over $150,000.

Larry Green, one of her co-conspirators, negotiated the sale of the stolen property with a third-country national middleman, who in turn facilitated the sale of the items to unknown persons in Kandahar.

Quincy further admitted that, to effectuate the theft of the generators, she used her position as a security badging and escort pass supervisor to create or cause to be made false official documents.

The false official documents facilitated both the entry of unknown and unvetted Afghan nationals and their vehicles on to the military installation and effectuated the removal of the stolen property from the installation.

Quincy also was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $179,708, and her sentence reflected her fraudulent post-trial conduct of submitting altered documents to the court on her behalf in advance of sentencing.

The case was investigated by the Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) with help from Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID) and the 939th Military Police Detachment of the Indiana Army National Guard.

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