Similar thing happened to me on Ft. Hood. When I was getting about $5 worth of steel out of a trash dumpster behind the hospital that they were remodeling some **** bag security guard comes out and tried to say I was stealing and committing larceny. So he called the Sergeant Major in charge of the MP's and told him that the workers throw stuff in the dumpster to get paid for it. Which was a total lie, The company that owns the dumpster charges $2500 minimum just to move their trucks. so needless to say now the MP's roll up with orders to arrest me. As I'm standing in the spot they told me to the security guard sees a screwdriver in my back pocket and started freaking out that I had a weapon I might be trying to pull on him. so he threw me on the ground and put me in cuffs. took my screw driver and I went to jail. Luckily Ft. Hood doesn't report to civilian agencies about crimes committed on post. so even though I was charged with larceny no one but my commander at the time will ever know. The worst part is, when I was in other places and the real MP's saw me in dumpsters they never even cared. I even had one offer to help me. Its just some people get into law enforcement to make the lives of others hell.