Navy investigator testified the service stopped investigating second suspect when the sailor was discharged from Navy
In the days that followed the devastating blaze that destroyed the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard, agents began investigating a suspect who was seen running from the scene just before sailors saw smoke, an agent testified Tuesday.
The testimony came during the second day of the defense’s presentation of the case and offered an alternative narrative to the one brought last week by the prosecution. “I never stopped looking at him because it was kind of weird to be running on the ship,” Polion said during testimony Tuesday. She reported this to NCIS when investigators began searching for witnesses, she said.
Mays, who was arrested Aug. 20, 2020, and placed in confinement, was released from the brig in October 2020 as NCIS pivoted to this second suspect, according to Gary Barthel, who was Mays’ civilian attorney at the time.
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