USS Michigan sailor tried to 'distribute' cocaine in sub's missile compartment

Andrew Binion, Kitsap Sun
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As part of a drug investigation aboard the USS Michigan, a sailor standing watch in the submarine’s missile compartment was accused of trying in February to “distribute” cocaine to another sailor.

The revelation of drug distribution inside the submarine comes after a 2019 incident where an officer on the USS Michigan was accused of selling cocaine in Seattle, and the 2020 fentanyl overdose death of a sailor while aboard the USS Carl Vinson, which had been docked at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.

In the recent case of drug-dealing and use aboard the Michigan, two sailors confessed to buying cocaine from a Bremerton man, Chase Edward Brown, 27, according to a Naval Criminal Investigative Service report.

The USS Michigan at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
The USS Michigan at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.

The sailor told the NCIS agent since January he bought about two grams of cocaine "biweekly" from Brown.

That agent's report was used to charge Brown Thursday in Kitsap County Superior Court with cocaine-dealing.

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