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Navy: Sub worker set fire so he could leave early
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A civilian laborer set a fire that caused $400 million in damage to a nuclear-powered submarine because he had anxiety and wanted to get out of work early, Navy investigators said Monday.
Casey James Fury, 24, of Portsmouth, N.H., faces up to life in prison if convicted of two counts of arson in the fire aboard the USS Miami attack submarine while it was in dry dock May 23 and a second blaze outside the sub on June 16.
Fury was taking medications for anxiety and depression and told investigators he set the fires so he could get out of work, according a seven-page affidavit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Portland.
Fury made his first court appearance Monday afternoon but did not enter a plea.
People who appeared to be family members attended the hearing but declined to comment. His federal public defender, David Beneman, did not speak in court and earlier in the day also declined to comment to The Associated Press.
The Miami was in dry dock at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, for an overhaul when the fire damaged the torpedo room and command area inside the forward compartment. It took more than 12 hours to extinguish.
Lowell
July 24th, 2012
Guess they’ll have to add arson and treason to the listed side effects of those medications.
Moe Tom
July 24th, 2012
$400 Mil. in damage. If convicted he’ll have to pay it back plus a $250 thousand fine. No problemo. Just stay in jail asshole.
chiggerbug
July 24th, 2012
Life puts him on the taxpayer back for too long. Call it treason and shoot him.
hanoverfist
July 24th, 2012
I bet he’s not too anxious about breaking big rocks into little rocks in Leavenworth.
But I bet he IS depressed.;-)
Weldor
July 24th, 2012
Look for the union label…
Moe Tom
July 24th, 2012
Does “Gun Control” play a part in this?
Moe Tom
July 24th, 2012
Briana Ross of ABC reports that there is a Casey L.Fury in Portsmouth who is a member of the NRA and recently signed up with a Tea Party group. I think.
CrustyB
July 24th, 2012
If he gets life in prison for causing $400 million in damage, imagine what Obama should get.
Clint Lovell
July 24th, 2012
In addition to outlawing assault rifles, shotguns and handguns it looks like we will also have to outlaw fire and unions.
willie t
July 24th, 2012
N.E. – bastion of right-to-workers
Benson II
July 24th, 2012
Is the public ever going to connect the dots?
School shootings – Psychiatric drugs
Mothers murdering their children – Psychiatric drugs
Soldiers killing civilians without cause – Psychiatric drugs.
Teens committing suicide – Psychiatric drugs
Children murdering their parents – Psychiatric drugs.
Did every case of these horrors involve Psychiatric drugs? No, but the scary part is that the majority did. Not having psychiatric drugs involved was the exception not the rule.
The liberal press would like us to think the majority of these people needed psychiatric care and psychiatric drugs when the opposite is true. It wasn’t until they were under psychiatric care and given drugs these things happened. The press psychiatry and drug companies have deliberately reversed cause and effect. It’s time to wake up to the truth.
Psychiatry kills, don’t let them drug your children or anyone you love.
espie
July 24th, 2012
WHAT is the matter with people?
Angrymike
July 24th, 2012
Why didn’t he just ask to leave early, I do it all the time……;-D
grayjohn
July 24th, 2012
When the repairs are done and the boat is underway, tie that little prick to the sail and Dive! Dive! Dive! Leave his body for the crabs.
norman einstein
July 24th, 2012
@grayjohn, I was about to suggest the same thing.
Nothing like a good old-fashioned keel-hauling to focus the mind.
A couple of hours ought to do it.
Tim
July 24th, 2012
See?!?!
This is all Bush’s Fault!!!!!
He was out of sick leave!!!!!
And … uhhh … somehow … uhhh, let’s see …
It was all Bush’s Fault!!!
Millertime
July 24th, 2012
Cant fire him, he will probably qualify for a disability retirement at 24.
Thanks ADA
Tracy
July 24th, 2012
SCUMBAG BULLSHIT EXCUSE = 1 LESS VOTE FOR OBAMA
The guy was just a SCUMBAG. All the SCUMBAG had to do was skate off somewhere ’til knock off. He set the fire because he’s a SCUMBAG. Sentence him ASAP.
NObama2012!