A former engineer at a Roanoke County night vision plant, who stole the companyâs devices and sold them online in what prosecutors called a threat to national security, was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison.
Steven David Rosine established an illicit market for components of night vision goggles that were produced for the U.S. military, âputting the safety of American soldiers in jeopardy,â Assistant U.S. Attorney Kristin Johnson said.
As a product engineer for what was then Harris Corp., Rosine secretly took valuable image intensifier tubes and other parts used to manufacture the goggles from a secure workplace to his Botetourt County home.