The Judge has been contacted 04/09/01 -- see 2nd article below

UPDATE - 05/01/01
Ary Jones was sentenced April 30th. His PD quit, and he was being assigned a new one. 
His son was in court earlier - "everyone lies".... he was heard to say. "So what?"
 Jones claimed he NEVER lied to the court.

A request for military records has been filed (NOT by the NETWORK) by those involved. TV camera crews were present, as well as reporters and journalists.

(Stories are reproduced most current FIRST)

                    Bogus claim of POW status draws ire of misled judge

                    By LISA SINK
                    of the Journal Sentinel staff

                    Last Updated: April 30, 2001

                    Waukesha - After initially receiving a break based on statements that he had been a prisoner of war, a drug dealer Monday saw his original sentence nearly doubled by a judge who learned the tale was a lie.

                    Made aware by national POW monitoring groups of Ary Jones' false claims of military heroism, Circuit Judge Patrick Haughney boosted Jones' sentence Monday from four to seven years in prison. The judge also added 15 years of probation.

                    "I find there are additional probation needs based upon the fraud that was perpetrated on the court," Haughney said.....

                                       It appears that Jones never served in the military, according to a national military records center in St. Louis. The center researched its records  for all branches of the military - Jones had claimed he was an Army Ranger - and found no record of Jones.....

                                                    Appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on May 1, 2001.

Drug dealer to get new sentence
He misled court with POW tale, judge says

By LISA SINK
of the Journal Sentinel staff
Last Updated: April 19, 2001

                    Waukesha - Saying a drug dealer committed a "fraud on the court," a judge Wednesday decided to resentence a Waukesha man whom he earlier had given a break because of the man's false claim that he had been a POW during the Vietnam War.

                    The decision brought quick praise from veterans groups that had disputed the claims of Ary Jones, 54, and asked Circuit Judge Patrick Haughney to review his sentence.

                    "Wonderful! He brought this on himself. There's no one else to blame. He deserves everything the judge throws at him," said Mary Schantag, whose Missouri organization, POW Network, uncovered Jones' fraud......

                                            Appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on April 19, 2001.

Man called back to court; POW groups say he lied

Judge to rehear drug dealer's case after claim of fraudulent record

By LISA SINK of the Journal Sentinel staff

Last Updated: April 10, 2001

Waukesha - A judge who gave a drug dealer credit for his self-reported POW status in Vietnam has ordered the man back into court after prisoner-of-war groups said Monday the man was a fraud.

"He lied to the judge; he lied to the attorney," said Mary Schantag, whose Missouri organization, POW Network, has Pentagon lists of POWs and MIAs.

"I hope he gets the full sentence they can possibly give him," she said.....

POW sentenced to prison in drug dealing conviction

By LISA SINK
of the Journal Sentinel staff

Last Updated: April 3, 2001

Waukesha - A 54-year-old Vietnam POW-turned-drug-dealer was a hero in the Cold War but an enemy in the drug war, a judge said Tuesday in sentencing him to four years in prison.

"Crack cocaine poses a very real and serious threat to this society - just as the Communists posed to society," Circuit Judge Patrick Haughney told the man, Ary Jones.

"I'm sorry to see, sir, that you're a warrior on the wrong side of the drug war," the judge said.....