Army Spokesman - Army Soldier Arrested On Suspicion Of Espionage Reuters

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska Tue Nov 1, 2011 10:17pm EDT

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A U.S. Army specialist from Kentucky who had been portion like a army policeman has become arrested at a strong Alaska government base on hunch regarding spying, a good Army spokesman said on Tuesday.

Specialist William Colton Millay, 22, had been used into custody at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on October 28 using a bowl espionage analysis conducted through the FBI and also Army Counterintelligence particular agents, Army spokesman Lt. Col. Bill Coppernoll said.

Coppernoll would not really declare which Millay, associated with Owensboro, Kentucky, was suspected regarding spying for or perhaps what delicate data he might have possessed accessibility to. He mentioned the actual analysis ended up being ongoing.

FBI spokesman Special Agent Eric Gonzalez mentioned your circumstance would always be tested out with military services courts.

He also mentioned your arrest was not in connection with that WikiLeaks case, in which U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning is usually charged with downloading it a lot more than 150,000 diplomatic cables along with transferring a lot of them to help Wikileaks whilst operating being an intelligence analyst inside Iraq.

"It's unrelated, forget WikiLeaks," Gonzalez told Reuters.

A spokesman with the Anchorage Correctional Complex claimed of which Millay was currently being placed presently there on a federal charge. Millay is issued for the 164th Military Police Company, 793rd Military Police Battalion, 2nd Engineer Brigade.

"Today's arrest was the effect of a close being employed connection concerning this FBI as well as its military services associates with Alaska," Mary Rook, special agent the boss of the FBI in Alaska, said in a very quick prepared statement.

"Through this specific ongoing partnership, i am superior capable of guard our nation," Rook said.

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson will be some sort of bundled Army as well as U.S. Air Force service around Anchorage.

(Reporting through Yereth Rosen, Writing through Dan Whitcomb; Editing by way of plus Cynthia Johnston)