Updated Sailor charged in ship fire was Navy SEAL dropout
SAN DIEGO (AP) The sailor charged with starting a fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard last year was assigned to the ship after dropping out of training to become a Navy SEAL, and he was described by some fellow sailors as a person who had disdain for the Navy, according to investigators.
Details of 20-year-old Ryan Mays and the early investigation into the worst U.S. warship fire in recent memory were revealed in a search warrant unsealed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Diego.
The Navy confirmed that Mays was the sailor charged Thursday with aggravated arson and the willful hazarding of a vessel.
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(SAN DIEGO, Calif.) The attorney for the sailor charged with setting last year’s fire aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard maintains that his client did not play a role in setting the fire and denied that he was embittered against the Navy after dropping out of SEAL training, as suggested in a federal search warrant unsealed earlier this week.
When the Navy announced the charges last week it declined to disclose the sailor’s name, but earlier this week federal prosecutors requested the unsealing of a federal search warrant, requested last year, to assist in the sailor’s legal defense.
Navy accuses SEAL school dropout of starting fire that gutted USS Bonhomme Richard
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Seaman Apprentice Ryan Sawyer Mays poses for a photo that accompanied a social media post he made on June 14, 2020, that read, “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” (Naval Criminal Investigative Service)
The sailor charged with setting the fire and destroying the USS Bonhomme Richard last summer had previously dropped out of training to become a Navy SEAL after only five days and held a grudge against the service, according to an affidavit filed by an investigator seeking a search warrant in the case.
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