Former worker faces 10 years in prison for stealing from Kittery shipyard
A former employee of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to stealing $60,000 of scrap metal from the Kittery yard.
Michael Gamash, 64, of Old Orchard Beach, routinely took the metal from several onsite dumpsters over two years beginning in April 2014, according to a statement from the acting U.S. attorney for Maine, Donald E. Clark. Gamash, a civilian shipyard employee at the time, sold the Navy-owned scrap to local metal dealers and netted roughly $60,000 over the two-year period.
When investigators from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service interviewed him, Gamash admitted to the heist, the statement said.
For the crime of theft of government property, Gamash could receive a sentence of as much as a decade in federal prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release. But Clark’s office is recommending a sentence of probation based on Gamash’s admission of guilt.
He will be sentenced after the completion of an investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.
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