Navy nuclear engineer and wife indicted for allegedly trying to sell submarine secrets

A Maryland-based naval nuclear engineer and his schoolteacher wife were indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday on national security charges that they tried to sell secret information about nuclear power warships. The indictment comes one week  after they were arrested and charged via criminal complaint on similar charges.

Jonathan and Diana Toebbe of Annapolis, Maryland  were formally charged Tuesday by a grand jury in Elkins, West Virginia, with one count of "Conspiracy to Communicate Restricted Data" and two counts of "Communication of Restricted Data." 

Prosecutors allege Jonathan Toebbe, through his Pentagon-issued national security clearance, had access to restricted data about naval nuclear technology and used that access to send a package to an unnamed foreign government on April 1, 2020.