Suspect in $400M sub blaze appears in court

Seacoastonline.com ^ | 23 Jul 12 | Charles McMahon

[GATOR NAVY]

PORTLAND, Maine — A civilian employee of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard arrested in connection with the May 23 blaze that caused $400 million in damage to the submarine USS Miami made his initial court appearance in U.S. District Court on Monday afternoon.

Casey J. Fury, 24, a Portsmouth resident and Portsmouth High School Class of 2006 graduate, was a civilian employee working aboard the submarine as a painter and sandblaster, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Maine. He was arrested Friday at the shipyard on two counts of arson “within special maritime and territorial jurisdiction,” said U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine Thomas Delahanty II.

Fury, who had been held at Cumberland County Jail since his arrest, appeared in U.S. District Court in Portland on Monday afternoon. Flanked by U.S. marshals, Fury entered the court room wearing an orange prisoner's uniform with his hands cuffed behind his back.

He did not enter a plea during the hearing in front of Magistrate Judge John H. Rich III, nor did he have bail set. Fury is being detained at the request of the government and will appear in court again Wednesday, Aug. 1, at 9:30 a.m. for a combined preliminary examination (probable cause hearing) and detention hearing, at which bail could be set.

Rich informed Fury that the prosecution had filed a motion suggesting that no set of conditions exist that would ensure Fury's appearance in court and the safety of the community if he is released on bail. The judge said Fury would have to present evidence to the contrary in order to receive bail.

[killermosquito]

he will be able to draw unemployment

[GATOR NAVY]

I fought one large class A fire (on another ship when our R and A team was called away) and had another 10 years later one night when I was the duty section leader. Interestingly, neither were in the yards and both were found later to have been deliberately set by disgruntled crewmen. The first one was on an LHA and the guy actually had three fires going at the same time, which was why they called for assistance from other ships. The second the same guy had also sabotaged steering gear motors earlier to keep the ship from getting underway. Later they nailed him for both the fire and the steering motors.

[littleharbour]

He intentionally sabotaged a critical piece of US military infrastructure. He should be charged with treason. And shot.

[cva66snipe]

Cigarette lighters were not allowed on the Hindenburg so why allowed on a sub under maintenance??

To light torches plus there is also welding going on. IOW why prohibit? Weapons Magizines with actual ammo is a No Lighters space on a ship. We used to test for explosives gases with a flame believe it or not. Of course it was enclosed :>}

[Chode]

skin that POS alive... then set HIM on fire!!!

[The Antiyuppie]

Future: NOT riding on a bicycle.

I still can’t believe that this guy cost his fellow citizens so much money. I’d really like someone just ASK him how he intends to repay it.

I’d say body parts would be a good start...

[Vendome]

Guy is all kinds of stoopit.

[edcoil]

I was on the Gurnard - SSN-662. Now I understand it has been recycled.

[Nervous Tick]

Guitarro (665). It’s razor blades now. Except its reactor compartment, which is at Hanford (#33): http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jYVl__lRp5s/Tfpf4Cyi6rI/AAAAAAAAA6E/KN5XrRqW_m0/s1600/HanfordSubRxCompPics.jpg

Gurnard is there too (#59).

IIRC, Gurnard’s home port was Ballast Point in the late 70s, right?

[cherokee1]

Miami was in overhaul——no weapons-—shouldn’t have even had small arms but the sailors just hate to mess with checking them in. The small arms locker no doubt got pretty well smoked too. A little red hair and this genius would look like a brother of Batboy in Aurora. They said he is a painter——maybe he’s been sucking a little too much on the organic hull paint?

[cherokee1]

There’s no watertight bulkhead until you get back to the forward reactor compartment bulkhead. That, including the emergency cooling water tank, is the first place the fire could be stopped. So it would have gotten, control, torpedoe, missile tubes, electronics, officers and crews quarters, galley, battery well, ie the whole maryanne. What’s a mystery to me , since this guy was a painter/blaster, there had to be work happening, and that requires a fire watch. Where the bleep was the fire watch-——?

[cherokee1]

If it had been a building it might have been a state matter. But it was on a Naval reservation and it happened to a combattant ship so the Fedz with the Navy assume authority——the boy is in BIG trouble.

[pingman]

Looks like he’s shopping the Patches Kennedy ‘Ambien’ defense. Good luck with that, Turd; you’re not a beautiful person.

[Repeal The 17th]

Maybe we can garnishee his future wages at $1000 a month for the next 33,000 years?

[cva66snipe]

I fought one large class A fire (on another ship when our R and A team was called away) and had another 10 years later one night when I was the duty section leader. Interestingly, neither were in the yards and both were found later to have been deliberately set by disgruntled crewmen. The first one was on an LHA and the guy actually had three fires going at the same time, which was why they called for assistance from other ships. The second the same guy had also sabotaged steering gear motors earlier to keep the ship from getting underway. Later they nailed him for both the fire and the steering motors.

Wonder how much they liked Levenworth? We were lucky that was our worst one. But we did have a switchboard melt when a DFWT water line ruptured right over it. Actually we lost an entire Main Machinery Room.

[edcoil]

Yes, the USS Dixon was our tender.

Went to look at the base last year the entry was totally changed for security now. We used to just bike past the old single person security booth back then.