Chief Petty Officer Bryce Pedicini was found guilty of providing classified information to an unidentified foreign government during a general court-martial at Naval Station San Diego, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) announced Friday.

Pedicini, a fire controlman previously assigned to the Japan-based USS Higgins, was found guilty of espionage after an NCIS investigation revealed he “delivered classified and national defense information to a representative of a foreign government as early as November 2022 and had reason to believe it would be harmful to the United States or advantageous to the foreign nation.”

“This guilty verdict holds Mr. Pedicini to account for his betrayal of his country and fellow service members,” NCIS Director Omar Lopez said in a statement.

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