Paul Davis On Crime: Bryan Minkyu Martin

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Saturday, May 21, 2011

Blinded By Greed: U.S. Sailor Sentenced To 34 Years In Espionage Case

Petty Officer 2nd Class Bryan Minkyu Martin was sentenced to 34 years for attempted espionge and other charges by a military judge at the Norfolk Naval Station.

You can read about the case in The Virginian-Pilot via the below link:

http://hamptonroads.com/2011/05/va-beachbased-sailor-gets-34-years-espionage-case

Thursday, May 19, 2011

U.S. Sailor Pleads Guilty To Attempted Espionage And Other Charges

Petty Officer 2nd Class Bryan Minkyu Martin pleaded guilty today at his court martial in Norfolk, Virginia for attempting to sell classified information to a person he believed was a Chinese intelligence officer.

You can read more about Martin in The Virginian-Pilot via the below link:

http://hamptonroads.com/2011/05/sailor-pleads-guilty-most-espionage-charges

You can also read an earlier post on the sailor and would-be-spy via the below link:

http://pauldavisoncrime.blogspot.com/2011/03/loose-lips-still-sink-ships-us-sailor.html

Friday, March 18, 2011

Loose Lips Still Sink Ships: U.S. Sailor To Be Court-Martialed For Attempted Espionage

The Virginian-Pilot reports that Bryan Minkyu Martin, an enlisted sailor accused of attempted espionage and other charges, is scheduled to be court-martialed at Norfolk, Virginia on May 19th.

Martin was arrested by the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service as he attempted to sell classified material to an undercover federal agent.

You can read the newspaper story via the below link:

http://hamptonroads.com/2011/03/date-set-reservists-courtmartial-espionage-case

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Fort Bragg Spy Case To Be Tried At Naval Station Norfolk

U.S. Navy Petty Officer Bryan Minkyu Martin, the enlisted Naval intelligence specialist charged last Thursday with several counts of attempted espionage and mishandling classified information, will face those charges at Naval Station Norfolk, The Fay Observer reports.

Martin (seen in the above U.S. Navy photo) is being held in the Naval Brig in Norfolk, Virginia.

You can read the news account via the below link:

http://blogs.fayobserver.com/fromthecourthouse/March-2011/Fort-Bragg-spy-case-to-be-tried-in-Norfolk,-Virgin

You can also read my earlier post on Martin via the below link:

http://pauldavisoncrime.blogspot.com/2011/03/us-navy-intelligence-specialist-charged.html

Paul Davis

Paul Davis is a writer who covers crime. He has written extensively about organized crime, cybercrime, street crime, white collar crime, crime fiction, crime prevention, the military, espionage and terrorism. His 'Crime Beat' column, which covers crime news, crime issues and crime prevention in South Philadelphia, appears weekly in the South Philly Review, and his 'On Crime' column, which covers crime in the Greater Philadelphia region, appears weekly at Philly Daily and Broad and Liberty. He is also a longtime contributor to Counterterrorism magazine and writes their online 'Threatcon' column, which covers crime, espionage and terrorism. Paul Davis' crime fiction appears in American Crime Magazine. His work has also appeared in the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Weekly and other publications. As a writer, he has attended police academy training, gone out on patrol with police officers, accompanied detectives as they worked cases, accompanied narcotics officers on drug raids, observed criminal court proceedings, visited jails and prisons, and covered street riots, mob wars and murder investigations. He has interviewed police commissioners and chiefs, FBI, DEA, HSI and other federal special agents, prosecutors, judges, public officials, WWII UDT frogmen, Navy SEALs, Army Delta operators, Israeli commandos, military intelligence officers, Scotland Yard detectives, CIA officers, former KGB officers, film and TV actors, film writers, directors and producers, journalists, novelists and true crime authors, gamblers, outlaw bikers, and Cosa Nostra organized crime bosses. Paul Davis has been a student of crime since he was a 12-year-old aspiring writer growing up in South Philadelphia. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 17 in 1970. He served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam War and he later served two years aboard the Navy harbor tugboat U.S.S. Saugus at the U.S. floating nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch, Scotland. He went on to become the civilian administrative officer of a Defense Department command in Philadelphia, where he oversaw security, safety and other programs for the command's military and civilian employees, and served as an investigating officer, while working part-time as a newspaper crime reporter and columnist. He retired in 2007 after more than 37 Navy/DOD years of service and became a full-time writer. From 1991 to 2005 he was a producer and on-air host of "Inside Government," a public affairs interview radio program that aired on Sunday mornings on WPEN AM and WMGK FM in the Philadelphia area. You can read Paul Davis' crime columns, crime fiction, book reviews and news and feature articles on this website. You can read his full bio by clicking on the above photo (by Brittany Davis-Pearson). And you can contact Paul Davis at pauldavisoncrime@aol.com.

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