The Navy says it’s unlikely to charge the parent who ran over and killed a 2-year-old at Norfolk Naval Station.

But NCIS is still investigating.

FindLaw Blotter reports:

Walking down the drink aisle of the supermarket can be a daunting experience as the number of options seem to increase every day. One drink you won’t see on the shelf …. Purple Drank (no, that is not a typo) also known as Sizzurp, among other names. Sizzurp, which is actually a form of codeine cough syrup, is all over the news these days. Rapper T.I. was believed to be sipping on the substance when he got pulled over this week, football player JaMarcus Russell was quenching his thirst with the concoction when he was arrested over fourth of July weekend — the drink has about as many celebrity fans as it does names. One problem through, Sizzurp is illegal. The drink is essentially a cough syrup cocktail, and the powerful ingredients contained in codeine are considered a controlled substance.

The relevance here is to the various new “drug” regulations which are being published in response to Spice (street name for Salvia) use within the military. As you know there are other drinks available in the commissary such as Red Bull, Rockstr, which can mimic the effects of cocaine when drunk in combination with alcohol.

The Sierra Vista Herald reports:

A Signal Corps soldier faces up to 60 years in prison now that he has been convicted of four drug-related charges.

The Sierra Vista Herald reports:

A soldier was ordered to prison for seven years for his actions involving possession and distribution of marijuana.

Army Times reports:

Army Col. Lawrence Sellin was fired two days after his sarcastic rant was published by the United Press International wire service. Sellin was fired because he didn’t clear his remarks through public affairs and failed to clear “written or oral presentations to the media” through a designated public affairs officer. Here is what he wrote:

KWTX.com reports that:

A court-martial panel Thursday at Fort Hood found Pfc. Donnie Stevens, Jr., guilty of unpremeditated murder and sentenced him to life in prison for the stabbing death of another soldier in 2009.

Dallas News reports:

A Fort Hood soldier has been sentenced to life in prison over the 2009 fatal stabbing of a fellow soldier during a party at a house.

A Davis-Monthan airman is on trial in military court this week over allegations that he ran a fraudulent Russian bride ring, arranging sham marriages for money with members of the military so the foreign women could obtain legal status in the U.S.

The Record-Courier reports on the Davila case:

Family members of murdered soldier Timothy and Randy Miller are preparing for a day of testimony from the defense after a daylong hearing for the prosecution on Monday.

Army Times reports:

Family members of soldiers who are imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth for killings during the Iraq war are planning a rally in Leavenworth. The relatives call the inmates the Leavenworth 10, although two have been released from the prison. Scott Behenna, one of the organizers of the Labor Day weekend rally, says the group is not anti-military.

What impact, if any, might this have on Behanna’s continuing requests for clemency?

Marine Corps Times reports this piece of collateral consequences:

Some military veterans are angry that a World War II soldier who died in prison after pleading guilty to killing his wife is scheduled to be buried Tuesday in Denver’s Fort Logan National Cemetery. Raymond R. Sawyer, a former Marine from Colorado, died Aug. 11 in a Tucson, Ariz., state prison while serving 13 years for second-degree murder.

The military has released the name of the man allegedly shot to death by a fellow reservist at Fort Gillem.

An earlier release said that the name of the suspect would not be released until there were charges.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that:

The Army reservist gunned down by a fellow soldier at Fort Gillem spent 29 years in the military, his family told the AJC Saturday night. Master Sgt. Pedro Mercado, 47, died from multiple gunshot wounds Thursday afternoon in building 941 at the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Forest Park. The married father of three was a New York native who lived in Stockbridge.

The New York Post quotes MSG Mercado’s wife:

“Pedro was a wonderful person, if you got to meet Pedro, you were truly blessed,” his distraught wife, Kimberly Mercado, told The Post. “He was all about work and family.”

A woman has been charged with bigamy for allegedly marrying another soldier while her husband was deployed to Iraq.