Andrew Dyer The San Diego Union-Tribune (TNS) A nuclear-powered aircraft carrier remains sidelined in San Diego because jet fuel got into its potable water supply, a Navy spokesperson said in a statement Thursday. Five sailors have reported “health concerns” over the contaminated water, the Navy said.…
Andrew Dyer The San Diego Union-Tribune A 21-year-old sailor was acquitted at a military court-martial Friday morning on charges accusing him of setting the devastating 2020 fire on the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard. Seaman Recruit Ryan Sawyer Mays was charged with aggravated…
Julie Manganis The Salem News, Beverly, Mass. Sep. 28—MIDDLETON — A former naval police officer at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, already in custody after being found carrying a hatchet in Lawrence, is now facing federal charges that he threatened his ex-wife and…
Andrew Dyer The San Diego Union-Tribune In the days that followed the devastating blaze that destroyed the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard, agents began investigating a suspect who was seen running from the scene just before sailors saw smoke, an agent…
Lee O. Sanderlin Baltimore Sun An Annapolis couple pleaded guilty in federal court — again — admitting to their would-be plot to sell thousands of pages of classified U.S. nuclear submarine secrets to a foreign government. Jonathan and Diana Toebbe appeared Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Trumble in the Northern District of West Virginia,…
Jessica Schladebeck New York Daily News A defense contractor at the heart of one the largest corruption scandals in U.S. Navy history was recaptured in Venezuela, two weeks after he cut off his ankle monitor and escaped house arrest in San Diego. Leonard Francis,…
