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Navy worker set fire to $400m submarine because he wanted to leave work early
A Navy worker set fire to a nuclear-powered submarine causing $400 million damage because he 'wanted to leave work early'.
Casey James Fury, 24, from Portsmouth, North Hampshire, faces life in prison if convicted of two counts of arson after starting an inferno aboard the USS Miami attack submarine on May 23.
According to a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court in Portland today, Fury, a painter and sandblaster, told investigators he lit the fires so he could get out of working on the vessel.
The Miami was getting an overhaul at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, when the fire damaged the torpedo room and command area inside the forward compartment. It took more than 12 hours to extinguish.
Fury is also charged with starting a second fire three weeks later on the dry dock cradle where the Miami rests, but there was no damage and no injuries.
After initially denying starting the infernos, Fury, whose Myspace profile includes references to fires, admitted he was responsible while taking a lie-detector test.
Fury told Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent Timothy Bailey that 'his anxiety started getting really bad,' so he grabbed his cigarettes and a lighter, walked up to a bunk room and set fire to some rags on the top bunk.
He wanted to leave work early, so he took some alcohol wipes and set them on fire outside the submarine.
As well as life in prison, the man could be slapped with a fine of up to $250,000 and be ordered to pay restitution if found guilty. His federal public defender, David Beneman, declined to comment.
The Navy originally said
Fury said he lied about setting the fires 'because he was scared and because everything was blurry to him and his memory was impacted due to his anxiety and the medication he was taking at the time,' investigators said.
The man told NCIS agent Jeremy Gauthier that he was taking sleeping pills and medication for anxiety, depression and allergies when he started the two blazes.
He checked himself into an in-patient mental health facility on June 21 and checked himself out two days later, the affidavit reads.
Fury's Myspace profile includes a poem that reads: 'Will the smoke leave us time? Or has someone extinguished your fire?'
On the social networking page, the man lists his mood as 'confident' and his status reads: ' I am simply not there.'
Casey James Fury: Navy worker set fire to $400m submarine because he wanted to leave work early | Mail Online
A Navy worker set fire to a nuclear-powered submarine causing $400 million damage because he 'wanted to leave work early'.
Casey James Fury, 24, from Portsmouth, North Hampshire, faces life in prison if convicted of two counts of arson after starting an inferno aboard the USS Miami attack submarine on May 23.
According to a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court in Portland today, Fury, a painter and sandblaster, told investigators he lit the fires so he could get out of working on the vessel.
The Miami was getting an overhaul at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, when the fire damaged the torpedo room and command area inside the forward compartment. It took more than 12 hours to extinguish.
Fury is also charged with starting a second fire three weeks later on the dry dock cradle where the Miami rests, but there was no damage and no injuries.
After initially denying starting the infernos, Fury, whose Myspace profile includes references to fires, admitted he was responsible while taking a lie-detector test.
Fury told Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent Timothy Bailey that 'his anxiety started getting really bad,' so he grabbed his cigarettes and a lighter, walked up to a bunk room and set fire to some rags on the top bunk.
He wanted to leave work early, so he took some alcohol wipes and set them on fire outside the submarine.
As well as life in prison, the man could be slapped with a fine of up to $250,000 and be ordered to pay restitution if found guilty. His federal public defender, David Beneman, declined to comment.
The Navy originally said
Fury said he lied about setting the fires 'because he was scared and because everything was blurry to him and his memory was impacted due to his anxiety and the medication he was taking at the time,' investigators said.
The man told NCIS agent Jeremy Gauthier that he was taking sleeping pills and medication for anxiety, depression and allergies when he started the two blazes.
He checked himself into an in-patient mental health facility on June 21 and checked himself out two days later, the affidavit reads.
Fury's Myspace profile includes a poem that reads: 'Will the smoke leave us time? Or has someone extinguished your fire?'
On the social networking page, the man lists his mood as 'confident' and his status reads: ' I am simply not there.'
Casey James Fury: Navy worker set fire to $400m submarine because he wanted to leave work early | Mail Online
