A US chief petty officer from Japan, earlier assigned to USS Higgins, has received an 18-year sentence in military prison on being convicted of attempted espionage, per the Naval Criminal Investigative Service’s declaration on Thursday.
A military judge gave Bryce Pedicini an 18-year sentence after a general court-martial, in which Pedicini was convicted on the grounds of attempted espionage, failure to abide by a general order and the subsequent attempt to violate a general order. The judge...