US Navy Petty Officer Based in Japan Charged With Espionage

Last month, another U.S. sailor pleaded guilty to providing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with sensitive U.S. military information.
US Navy Petty Officer Based in Japan Charged With Espionage
The guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins (DDG 76) is underway off the coast of Haiti on Jan. 15, 2010. Seaman Stephen G. Hale II/U.S. Navy via Getty Images
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A U.S. Navy sailor based in Japan has been charged with espionage and communicating defense information to an employee of a foreign government on more than one occasion.

Bryce S. Pedicini, a chief petty officer (CPO) fire controlman aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins, is suspected of handing over documents to a foreign citizen at least seven times between 2022 and 2023 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, and one final time while in Japan, according to the charge sheet.

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