Security Officers Deny Stealing Jet Engines
Two security policemen at Hill Air Force Base pleaded innocent Wednesday to federal charges stemming from the theft of three F-16 jet engines and other military hardware snagged in an FBI sting operation.
The 22-count indictment was unsealed at a hearing for Airman 1st Class Brian David Roth, 22, of Chesterland, Ohio, and Senior Airman Danny Joe Stroud, 23, and his wife, Kimberly, 22, of Wichita, Kan.
Roth and Danny Stroud were arrested Monday by FBI agents in the July 3 theft of the three engines, valued at $2 million each, from the northern Utah installation. Kimberly Stroud was unaware of the indictment until she arrived in court, said Assistant U.S. Atty. Bruck Lubeck.
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