DAYTON — A Fairborn man and former contractor with the United States Air Force pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Thursday to illegally taking around 2,500 pages of classified documents, according to a release from David M. DeVillers, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio.
Izaak Vincent Kemp, 35, was charged on Jan. 25 by a Bill of Information, according to the release.
More than 100 documents, which contained around 2,500 pages of material classified at the SECRET level, were discovered by law enforcement after they executed a search warrant at Kemp’s home on May 25, 2019.
Court documents showed that Kemp was employed at the Air Force Research Laboratory from July 2016 to May 2019, and later as a contractor at the U.S. Air Force National Air and Space Intelligence Center.
Kemp also had Top Secret security clearance while working on the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Fairborn, the release said.
The release also stated that Kemp even had training on various occasions on how to safeguard classified material, but he still took 112 classified documents and kept them at his home.
Unauthorized removal or retention of classified documents is a federal crime punishable by up to five years in prison, and sentencing of the defendant will be determined by the court based on the advisory sentencing guidelines and other statutory factors, the release said.
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