Ex-Boeing employee is charged in vandalism case

Delco Times ^ | 1 August 2008 | Timothy Logue

[Gay State Conservative]

Ten years??? Give him 50!

[sport]

Vandalism hell!

It was sabotage.

[Gay State Conservative]

"Matthew has no priors, is working full-time right now and I am hoping to argue for a non-custodial sentence," she said.

And if your client had done this during WWII,sweetie,he would have been put up against the wall.And that nation would have cheered.

[Gay State Conservative]

Vandalism hell! It was sabotage.

You got it,pal.

[yorkie01]

You gotta love unions.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[jriemer]

... Meehan said the severed wires posed "... no risk of injury because, as I understand it, the helicopter would never (have been) able to take off."

So if the sabotaged helicopter injures or kills its passengers and crew on the ground, it's OK by this public defender?

[Nailbiter]

Your compassion is showing.

He needs to take helo ride, and be let out at 10,000 ft.

Calling this vandalism lessens the crime, this was sabotage, thank God they caught him before he sabo’d an Osprey.

[mvpel]

The punishment for sabotage during time of war is 30 years. Maybe the reason they can’t charge it is because the damned idiots in Congress has never formally declared war.

[mvpel]

18 U.S.C. § 2156. Production of defective national-defense material, national-defense premises, or national-defense utilities

(a) Whoever, with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the national defense of the United States, willfully makes, constructs, or attempts to make or construct in a defective manner, any national-defense material, national-defense premises or national-defense utilities, or any tool, implement, machine, utensil, or receptacle used or employed in making, producing, manufacturing, or repairing any such national-defense material, national-defense premises or national-defense utilities, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

[DB]

The helicopter wasn't going anywhere. What he did wasn't subtle...

This sounds like a union thing... Bill the union too...

[Nailbiter]

Time to change that law.

Willful vandalism of material destined for Military personnell should be capital offense.

Upon conviction there should be only one sentence, death.

[Gorzaloon]

The punishment for sabotage during time of war is 30 years. Maybe the reason they can’t charge it is because the damned idiots in Congress has never formally declared war.

It's not like he was the New York Times publishing leaked Classified Information, or anything.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Montgomery's attorney, public defender Mara Meehan, said she would push for leniency at sentencing if he pleads guilty or is convicted.

WTF?

[Travis McGee]

Take him up and toss him out. No chute.

[Army Air Corps]

...facing up to 10 years in prison and $500,000 in fines and restitution for severing a bundle of wires on a Chinook helicopter.

Not enough. Make it 50 years or more.

[Seaplaner]

Bradley said the investigation continues and a reward still stands for information leading to the arrest of the person or persons responsible for damaging the transmission of a second Chinook.

This sounds quite serious. Possibly like the kind of problem in which a Chinook can take off before suffering a catastrophic MLF.

Perhaps Mr. Mongomery could be in the "loop" here too, and might like to trade a few decades worth of additional incarceration for some info?

As a Navy and Marine Dad, I'd like to volunteer for Mongomery's jury.

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[jazusamo]

If he pleads or is convicted he deserves a max sentence no matter how much sobbing Ms. Meehan does.

[Chode]

Matthew has no priors, is working full-time right now... WHERE??? better not still be at Boeing.