只为提前下班！美军雇员点燃核潜艇致4亿美元损失

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只为提前下班！美军雇员点燃核潜艇致4亿美元损失

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.

The Portsmouth High School graduate said he set the second fire after getting anxious over a text-message exchange with an ex-girlfriend about a man she had started seeing, according to the affidavit.

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 the fire started when an industrial vacuum cleaner sucked up a heat source that ignited debris inside.

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.'

【新闻快讯】

7月24日美联社报道，美国海军一名患焦虑症平民雇员为了及早下班，情急之下点燃一艘核潜艇，造成4亿美元(约合25.31亿元人民币)的损失。

24岁的凯西·詹姆斯涉嫌分别于今年5月23日和6月16日，点燃在缅因州朴茨茅斯造船厂内维修的美国海军“迈阿密”号攻击核潜艇，他被控两项纵火罪名，或面临终生监禁。

詹姆斯在7月20日接受测谎仪测试后承认自己于5月23日首次纵火的事实，他告诉调查人员称，当时只是急着想早点下班。

据了解，这场持续近10个小时的大火虽然没有引发核泄漏，但导致靠近艇艏的指挥中心、武器舱和水兵居住区严重受损，造成损失估计4亿美元(约合25.31亿元人民币)，不排除该艇就此报废的可能。

詹姆斯此前在上周三(7月18日)一次谈话中也承认自己于6月16日纵火的事实，当时他点燃了承托“迈阿密”号攻击核潜艇的托架，没造成多少损失。詹姆斯描述自己作案动机称，收到前女友的短信，知道她开始和另外一名男子交往，于是急着想走。他拿出一些酒精擦拭棉球，放在潜艇周围，并将这些棉球点燃。

据悉，詹姆斯是一名油漆和喷砂工人，患有焦虑症，作案期间正服用抗焦虑、抑郁、失眠和过敏等4种药物。