Navy: Sub worker set fire so he could leave early
By CLARKE CANFIELDBy CLARKE CANFIELD, Associated Press?
?FILE - In this May 23, 2012 file photo, a fire burns on a nuclear submarine at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. A civilian employee working as a painter and sandblaster aboard the submarine has been charged with setting a fire that caused $400 million in damages to the vessel in May, and a second fire near it in June, Navy investigators said in a complaint filed Monday, July 23, 2012. (AP Photo/WMUR, Jean Mackin, File) MANDATORY CREDIT
FILE - In this May 23, 2012 file photo, a fire burns on a nuclear submarine at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. A civilian employee working as a painter and sandblaster aboard the submarine has been charged with setting a fire that caused $400 million in damages to the vessel in May, and a second fire near it in June, Navy investigators said in a complaint filed Monday, July 23, 2012. (AP Photo/WMUR, Jean Mackin, File) MANDATORY CREDIT
FILE - This April 26, 2004 file photo provided by the U.S. Navy, shows the USS Miami SSN 755, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Civilian employee Casey James Fury, 24, of Portsmouth, N.H., is scheduled for a hearing in Portland, Maine on Monday, July 23, 2012 on charges of setting a fire aboard the submarine while it was in dry dock at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine on May 23, and setting a second fire outside the sub on June 16. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, PH2 Kevin Langford)
U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine, Thomas Delahanty II speaks Monday, July 23, 2012 outside of U.S. District Court in Portland, Maine following a court appearance by Casey James Fury, 24, of Portsmouth, N.H. Fury is charged with arson for setting the fire that did $400 million in damage to the nuclear submarine the USS Miami. (AP Photo/Joel Page)
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ? A civilian employee working as a painter and sandblaster aboard a submarine at a Maine shipyard has been charged with setting a fire that heavily damaged the vessel in May, and a second near it in June.
In a complaint filed Monday in federal court in Maine, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service says 24-year-old Casey James Fury has been charged with two counts of arson involving the USS Miami.
The submarine has been in dry dock for an overhaul at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in in Kittery. Court documents say Fury was assigned to do paint stripping in the torpedo room.
Estimates put the fire damage at $400 million.
Fury made his first court appearance Monday afternoon but did not enter a plea.
Associated Press
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