Alleged Somali pirates indicted
Federal grand juries in the Eastern District of Virginia returned two separate indictments on Friday, charging 11 Somalia men with engaging in piracy and related offenses pertaining to attacks on two Navy ships earlier this year
The indictments charge separate attacks by separate groups on the USS Nicholas on March 31 and the USS Ashland on April 10. The Nicholas is an Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate homeported in Norfolk, Va. The Ashland is a Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship home-ported in Little Creek, Va.
The two indictments were returned last week and were unsealed when the defendants made their initial appearances before a magistrate judge in Norfolk.
Alleged Somali pirates indicted
