Alaska Military Policeman Sentenced To 16 Years For Attempted Espionage

Seth Robson at the Stars and Stripes newspaper offers a piece on the sentencing of a U.S. soldier for attempted espionage and other charges.

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — A military panel sentenced a soldier with Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, to a long prison term Monday for trying to sell classified information.

Spc. William Colton Millay, 24, a military policeman with the 164th Military Police Company, communicated with and transmitted national defense information to an undercover FBI agent whom he believed was a foreign intelligence agent, a U.S. Army Alaska statement said.

 

On March 19, he pleaded guilty to attempted espionage, failing to obey regulations, issuing a false official statement, soliciting another to commit espionage and communicating national defense information, the statement said. 

 

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

 

http://www.stripes.com/news/army/alaska-gi-gets-prison-term-for-trying-to-sell-information-1.216793

 

Note: The above U.S. Army photo is of Spc. William Colton Millay.