Shipyard employee charged in fires on nuclear sub

JULY 23, 2012 — Casey James Fury, a civilian employee working as a painter and sandblaster at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, has been charged with two counts of arson in relation to fires aboard the submarine USS Miami. The fires, which broke on May 23 and June 16  while the submarine was undergoing work at the shipyard, are estimated to have caused $400 million in damages to the vessel.

Read the Criminal Complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, HERE