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Xiafen "Sherry" Chen was charged last October with theft,
illegally accessing a federal database and two counts of making
false statements to investigators and was arrested at the NOAA
office in Wilmington, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office
for the Southern District of Ohio.
Chen was accused of accessing restricted areas of the National
Inventory of Dams in May 2012 and downloading sensitive files
and providing false information to investigators in June 2013,
prosecutors said.
The motion to dismiss, filed in federal court in Dayton, did not
give a rationale for dropping the charges, but said Chen's legal
counsel did not object to the move.
Representatives of the U.S. Attorney's Office in southern Ohio
were not immediately available.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Dam Safety
Review Board maintain the database, which consists of dams
meeting certain hazard or height criteria.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner)
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