National Guard member indicted after agreeing to {photograph} Kansas Army publish for Russia intelligence

FORT RILEY (KSNT) – Federal officers have indicted a member of the Kansas National Guard after he allegedly agreed to take pictures of Fort Riley Army on behalf of a Russian clever agent and ship a helicopter radio abroad.

The Department of Justice stated in a press release that legislation enforcement arrested Canyon A. Amarys, 28, of Alamogordo, New Mexico on Oct. 28 in connection to his indictment for the tried violation of the Export Control Reform Act. His indictment stems from his alleged involvement with a Russian intelligence agent earlier this yr.

The DOJ stated Amarys allegedly met in February 2025 with somebody he believed to be a Russian intelligence agent and signed an settlement to verify his covert relationship with the Russian intelligence service. He additionally allegedly agreed to take pictures of a navy set up that’s a part of the Fort Riley Army Post and to get a helicopter radio for later use by the Russian navy.

Amarys bought the helicopter radio in March 2025 and traveled to Kansas with the intention to retrieve it and ship it to a person in Romania, in response to the DOJ. U.S. export legal guidelines forestall this motion and investigators later recovered the radio Amarys allegedly sought to illegally ship overseas.

The Kansas City workplace of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating this case with assist from the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Command, the Kansas National Guard, the Department of Commerce and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. Prosecutors for the case embrace Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Rask of the District of Kansas and Trial Attorney David Ryan of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section.

For extra native information, click on right here. Keep up with the newest breaking information in northeast Kansas by downloading our cell app and by signing up for our news email alerts. Sign up for our Storm Track Weather app by clicking right here.

Follow Matthew Self on X (Twitter):