U.S. Arrests Couple on Spy Charges to Sell Nuclear-Sub Data
- Navy employee offered secrets to a foreign power, DOJ says
- Crypto payments and an SD card in a peanut-butter sandwich
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The U.S. arrested a Navy Department employee and his wife on spying-related charges after they allegedly sold restricted data on nuclear-powered submarines to an FBI agent posing as a foreign official.
Jonathan Toebbe, 42, and his wife Diana, 45, were ensnared in an investigation involving cryptocurrency payments, encrypted emails and a “dead drop” in West Virginia of a memory card hidden in a peanut butter sandwich, the Justice Department said in a statement on Sunday.