Navy Man Implicated in Theft of 20 Grenades from San Diego Destroyer

A Navy man from Illinois was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of stealing 20 hand grenades from the guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney while serving aboard the San Diego-based ship.
Naval Criminal Investigative Service personnel took Gunner’s Mate 2nd Class Aaron Booker into custody Tuesday morning at his duty post near Chicago.

Sailors aboard the Pinckney discovered the grenades missing last year during a routine inventory of explosives.
Two months later, an off-duty police officer came across a black military-issue backpack leaning against a guardrail alongside Interstate 15 in northwest Arizona. In addition to a tag with “GM2 BOOKER” handwritten on it, the bag contained 18 of the grenades that went missing from USS Pinckney, court documents state.

If convicted on a federal charge of possessing stolen explosives, Booker will face a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Authorities are still searching for the two grenades from the Pinckney that remain unaccounted for, according to court documents.

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