Junior officer charged with
harassing civilian family
By William H. McMichael
Times staff writer
Navy Ensign Jason Michael Carley, left, and Barry Cogen, right — Broward County, Fla., Sheriff / U.S. Navy
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A Norfolk-based Navy ensign and another man are in custody on charges that they terrorized a Broward County, Fla., family over a three-year period.
Ensign Jason Michael Carley, 22, and Barry Cogen, 22, are accused of repeatedly throwing eggs, hundreds of magazines, concrete blocks, gasoline, fire/acid bombs, firecrackers and more at the Lau family residence near Oakland Park, an unincorporated area near Fort Lauderdale. The two men are accused of attacking the property 15 times between August 2002 and July 17, 2004, damaging two family cars and the residence in the process.
Detectives said the residence was occupied during all of the incidents.
Carley, assigned to the frigate Elrod, was arrested July 13 in Norfolk by Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents, according to Broward County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Liz Calzadilla-Fiallo. He is now being held without bond at the Broward Sheriff’s Office Main Jail on two counts of arson and two counts of manufacturing and projecting a destructive device. Cogan was arrested June 29 and released on one count of aggravated stalking. Additional charges are pending, Calzadilla-Fiallo said.
The Navy couldn’t be reached late today to determine Carley’s date of service and whether he was in the Navy during the time the crimes were said to be committed.
Both men had been under investigation since August 2002 for stalking, harassing and damaging the Lau family home, Calzadilla-Fiallo said. Detectives said the two had harassed the family’s son while attending a local middle school. Calzadilla-Fiallo said both men have said that they committed the acts “simply out of boredom.”
harassing civilian family
By William H. McMichael
Times staff writer
Navy Ensign Jason Michael Carley, left, and Barry Cogen, right — Broward County, Fla., Sheriff / U.S. Navy
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A Norfolk-based Navy ensign and another man are in custody on charges that they terrorized a Broward County, Fla., family over a three-year period.
Ensign Jason Michael Carley, 22, and Barry Cogen, 22, are accused of repeatedly throwing eggs, hundreds of magazines, concrete blocks, gasoline, fire/acid bombs, firecrackers and more at the Lau family residence near Oakland Park, an unincorporated area near Fort Lauderdale. The two men are accused of attacking the property 15 times between August 2002 and July 17, 2004, damaging two family cars and the residence in the process.
Detectives said the residence was occupied during all of the incidents.
Carley, assigned to the frigate Elrod, was arrested July 13 in Norfolk by Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents, according to Broward County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Liz Calzadilla-Fiallo. He is now being held without bond at the Broward Sheriff’s Office Main Jail on two counts of arson and two counts of manufacturing and projecting a destructive device. Cogan was arrested June 29 and released on one count of aggravated stalking. Additional charges are pending, Calzadilla-Fiallo said.
The Navy couldn’t be reached late today to determine Carley’s date of service and whether he was in the Navy during the time the crimes were said to be committed.
Both men had been under investigation since August 2002 for stalking, harassing and damaging the Lau family home, Calzadilla-Fiallo said. Detectives said the two had harassed the family’s son while attending a local middle school. Calzadilla-Fiallo said both men have said that they committed the acts “simply out of boredom.”
