A former sailor was sentenced Feb. 10 to 30 years in prison, for attempting to steal secrets about the Navy’s nuclear-submarine fleet and provide them to Russia. Robert Patrick Hoffman II, 40, was found guilty last Aug. 21 of the charges. According to the Justice Department, Hoffman gained access to top-secret and high-security information during his 20-year career as a Navy cryptologic technician – technical 2nd class. He retired in 2011. Hoffman revealed his willingness to compromise what he knew to undercover FBI and Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) agents in 2012, who were posing as Russian operatives. Agents arrested Hoffman that December, after he willingly delivered thumb drives with classified information to a specified drop site near his home in Virginia Beach, Va.