A Kansas National Guard member is facing federal charges for allegedly trying to aid the Russian military.
According to an indictment released Thursday, 28-year-old Canyon Amarys of Alamogordo, New Mexico, met with someone he believed was a Russian intelligence agent and agreed to provide sensitive military equipment and photographs of Fort Riley.
Prosecutors say Amarys bought a helicopter radio and planned to export it illegally to Romania as part of the scheme. Investigators later recovered the radio during a court-authorized search.
The FBI’s Kansas City field office is leading the investigation, with help from Army counterintelligence and several federal agencies.
Amarys is charged with attempting to violate the Export Control Reform Act — a law restricting the export of certain U.S. military items without a license.
