OAN’s Taylor Tinsley
11:51am – Friday, March 8, 2024
Sergeant Corbein Schultz was arrested by the Department of Justice on Thursday at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
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A federal grand jury indicted the 24-year-old on six counts, including “conspiring to obtain and disclose national defense information, exporting technical data related to defense articles without a license, and exporting defense articles without a license.” Includes charges of “collusion, and bribery.” of civil servants. ”
According to the indictment, from June 2022 until the time of his arrest, Schultz conspired with an alleged Hong Kong-based “Conspirator A” to steal “documents, plans, wiring, photographs, maps, and notes.” It is said to have been published. Items related to national defense information.
Prosecutors also noted that Co-conspirator A hired Mr. Schultz to collect various most sensitive military documents.
“Specifically, Co-conspirator A tasked Schultz with gathering information about various U.S. military weapons systems, including classified information, as well as information related to potential U.S. plans should Taiwan come under military attack. ” said the press release. Arrested.
“This included state-of-the-art fighter jets, state-of-the-art military helicopters, intercontinental ballistic missiles, anti-aircraft artillery rocket systems, defensive missile systems, and documents and information related to Chinese military tactics,” Henry said.・Attorney Leventis stated.
Co-conspirator A made at least 14 wire transfers to Mr. Schultz totaling an estimated $42,000.
Schultz joined the Army in 2018. He served as an Army intelligence analyst in the 1st Battalion, 506th Regiment.th Infantry regiment at Fort Campbell before arrest. Prosecutors also said he had a “top secret security clearance.”
He is scheduled to make his first appearance in a Tennessee court on Friday.
Schultz’s arrest comes after another Air Force member was charged with sending classified information about the Russia-Ukraine war to a woman who claimed to be in Ukraine on a dating site. David Slater, 63, was arrested Saturday. Prosecutors said that between February and April 2022, Slater was asked to provide classified national defense information to an anonymous woman who described him in emails as a “confidential informant’s girlfriend.”
Meanwhile, on Monday, 22-year-old former Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira was similarly charged with leaking classified Pentagon documents. He pleaded guilty to six charges. He will serve a maximum sentence of nearly 17 years, but at least 11 years, followed by three years of supervision.
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