NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A Yorktown sailor pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty resulting in the death of another sailor last year at a special court martial Monday.
Master-at-Arms Second Class Petty Officer Jackson Bower, assigned to Naval Station Yorktown, had been charged with negligent homicide, making a false statement and two counts of dereliction of duty in the death of Master-at-Arms Third Class Lyndon Joel Cosgriff-Flax, 22, who was killed during an April 28, 2024 boating incident on the York River, the Navy said.
Bower was sentenced to 70 days confinement in the Navy’s Chesapeake brig…