A Maryland nuclear engineer and his better half were captured Saturday on doubt of endeavoring to sell restricted data about the plan of atomic-controlled warships used to educate at a non-public school in Denver. 

Jonathan Toebbe and Diana Toebbe Arrested 

Jonathan Toebbe, 42, and Diana Toebbe, 45, the two of Annapolis, were captured in West Virginia by the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS). They face one charge of infringement of the Atomic Energy Law. 

For a year, they offered data to an individual they accepted to be a delegate of an unfamiliar force who was really an FBI specialist, as indicated by the US Department of Justice. 

Jonathan Toebbe was a representative of the Department of the Navy and filled in as an atomic designer allotted to the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, the equity office said in an official statement. 

Prior to joining the Navy, he was a science educator at Kent Denver School. He was educated at the secondary school level there somewhere in the range of 2005 and 2008 and left on favorable terms, as indicated by a Kent Denver spokesman. 

Jonathan Toebbe likewise acquired a Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines subsequent to examining there from 2008 to 2012, a school representative affirmed. 

Diana Toebbe additionally showed secondary school science at Kent Denver School from 2005 to 2012 and left on favorable terms, the representative said. 

As indicated by the oath for the situation, on April 1, 2020, Jonathan Toebbe sent a bundle to an unfamiliar government that contained an example of restricted intel and guidelines to build up an incognito relationship, the equity office says. 

From that point forward, Toebbe talked by means of an encoded email with that individual he was a delegate of that unfamiliar government. The individual was really a covert FBI specialist.

Toebbe kept on addressing the individual for quite a long time and consented to sell the data in return for a large number of dollars in cryptographic money, the official statement says. 

On June 8, the FBI specialist sent $ 10,000 worth of cryptographic money to Toebbe as a "great confidence" installment, the assertion said. 

On June 26, Jonathan and Diane Toebbe went to West Virginia. Diana Toebbe went about as a post while her significant other put a secret SD card in a peanut butter sandwich in an "impasse," says the Justice Department. 

After the secret FBI specialist recuperated the SD card, the specialist sent $ 20,000 worth of digital currency to Jonathan Toebbe, who then, at that point, gave the specialist a decoding key. The SD card contained privileged intel about undersea atomic reactors, says the Justice Department. 

On August 28, Jonathan Toebbe made another "dead drop" from an SD card in Virginia into a pack of gum and got $ 70,000 in crypto, the assertion said. 

The FBI captured the couple on Saturday after Jonathan Toebbe made another "dead drop" at an area in West Virginia, the Justice Department says.