
22-year-old military policeman William Collon Milli, who was serving in the Alaska of the Alaska Military base Elmendorf Richardson, was arrested in Anchorida on suspicion of espionage.
According to Anchorage Daily News , the soldier was arrested at 6:30 last Friday and already at 20:00 was placed in prison without the possibility of bail.
As the FBI officer Eric Gonzalez told the publication, the arrest was made as part of a joint investigation of the FBI and military counterintelligence. He added that this case will be considered by the military prosecutor's office.
Neither the FBI nor the military have reported what exactly the arrest is connected with and what specific charges can be brought by William Millyu.
Guessing what this case can be connected with, Anchorage Daily News recalls that most servicemen from the unit where Millei was serving were currently sent to Afghanistan for 12 months to train local police officers.
Bloggers associate this case with the possible transfer of secret military data to the WikiLeaks website.
However, the FBI representative denied all these assumptions. “It has nothing to do with WikiLeaks,” said Gonzalez, but did not clarify anything else.
The investigation is still at an early stage, said Colonel William Coppernoll, a representative of the US Armed Forces in Alaska. In his letter in the name of the leadership of the newspaper, he also did not report any details, noting that the investigation in this case is in the very initial stage.