Washington: The Federal Prosecutor’s Office said Monday that a naval engineer remained locked when they pressed forward on charges that he tried to sell secrets of submarines to foreign countries.
Memo detention for Jonathan Toebbe was put forward before the appearance expected in the federal court in West Virginia on Tuesday.
The Ministry of Justice submitted an identical movement for TOEBBE’s wife, Diana, who was also arrested on Saturday.
Jonathan Toebbe was accused of passing the design information about the sophisticated submarine Virginia class to someone who he said represented a foreign government but which was actually a disguised FBI agent.
The state identity was not revealed in court documents.
According to the document, TOEBBE reached on April 2020 to a foreign country to offer information about submarines and to provide instructions on how to maintain a quiet dialogue.
But the package he sent was eight months later by the FBI, who began contact with TOEBBE through an incognition agent who agreed to pay tens of thousands of dollars in Cryptocurrency in exchange for government secrets.
Toebbe left memory card that contains sensitive documents at the location “dead-drop” which was set before, hid it in one example in the peanut butter sandwich and on occasion in the gum package and band-aid wrapping, the FBI said.
Diana Teebbe accompanied him on several occasions, including serving as a observation during a dead-drop operation at Jefferson County, West Virginia, said court documents.
Not immediately clear whether one of Teebbes has a lawyer.
In the detention memo, prosecutors check boxes that show that they believe Toebbes represents the risk of escaping and blocking justice.
They also examined boxes that showed that prosecution, under the Atomic Energy Act, involves “violations where the maximum penalty is a prison sentence or death”.
Prosecutors seek detention in the case of naval submarine espionage
