Man Charged in Chinook Copter Sabotage

An arrest has been made in the suspected sabotage of H-47 Chinook helicopters at a Boeing plant in Pennsylvania.

Poor thing was supposedly upset over a job transfer.

An assembly line worker upset about a pending job transfer has been charged with vandalizing a military helicopter at a Boeing factory, prosecutors said Tuesday.

They said they were still trying to determine who damaged a second helicopter at the plant.

Matthew Kevin Montgomery, 33, of Trevose, cut a bundle of about 70 wires on an H-47 Chinook helicopter, U.S. Attorney Patrick Meehan said at a news conference.

Montgomery admitted to cutting the wires on the morning of May 10, his last day working on the Chinook line, according to an arrest affidavit. He had been a Boeing employee for 18 months.

"Regardless of what his motivation was, the impact was the same," Meehan said. The helicopter would not have been able to fly with the cut wires, investigators said.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry Perkin agreed Tuesday to release Montgomery on $25,000 bail; the judge ordered him to live with his parents in Southampton, undergo a mental health exam and have no contact with Boeing or its employees.

"He's very concerned and very remorseful," said public defender Mara Meehan. "He's been pretty upset, which is one reason why concerns have been raised about mental health."

I hope he is upset and gets the harshest possible punishment allowing him ample time to think about what he did.

H/T Lawhawk.

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