{"id":155891,"date":"2024-04-22T09:47:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T13:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=155891"},"modified":"2024-04-22T09:47:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T13:47:06","slug":"sailor-convicted-of-attempted-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=155891","title":{"rendered":"Sailor Convicted of Attempted Espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-155892 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ddg-76-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ddg-76-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ddg-76.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>USS Higgins (DDG-76)<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Japan-Based Chief Petty Officer Found Guilty of Attempted Espionage<\/h3>\n<p><strong>GIDGET FUENTES<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A sailor assigned to a Japan-based guided-missile destroyer who was accused of providing classified information to a foreign government official was found guilty Friday of attempted espionage and other related charges, the Navy said.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Petty Officer Fire Controlman Bryce S. Pedicini, who had been assigned to the USS Higgins (DDG-76) before his arrest on May 19, 2023, in Japan, will be sentenced by a military judge at a May 7 court hearing, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service said in a news release announcing the verdict. Pedicini had been held in pretrial detention since his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Pedicini, whose case was tried at a general court-martial, was found guilty of attempted espionage (Article 103a of the Uniform Code of Military Justice), failure to obey a lawful order (Article 92), and attempted violation of a lawful general order (Article 80), according to NCIS.<\/p>\n<p>Online court records show Pedicini was initially charged with eight counts of espionage and attempted espionage under Article 103a and seven counts related to conduct under Article 134.<\/p>\n<p>There are no maximum or minimum sentencing terms for a service member convicted of attempted espionage, as UCMJ allows for \u201cany punishment, other than death, that a court-martial may direct.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2024\/04\/21\/japan-based-chief-petty-officer-found-guilty-of-attempted-espionage\">USNI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>E-7 (for the time being) Pedicini exchanged sensitive data concerning US Navy in-theater capabilities and strategies to an unnamed foreign agent for monetary gain. I&#8217;d say the &#8220;attempted&#8221; caveat has evaporated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USS Higgins (DDG-76) Japan-Based Chief Petty Officer Found Guilty of Attempted Espionage GIDGET FUENTES A sailor &hellip; <a title=\"Sailor Convicted of Attempted Espionage\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=155891\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sailor Convicted of Attempted Espionage<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":155892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[703,296,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-navy","category-china","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/155892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}