Hill headed for N.Y.

Friday, June 29, 2001 | 11:02 a.m.

James J. Hill, the jailed FBI security analyst charged with selling top-secret investigative information, is on his way to New York to face criminal charges.

A spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service said Hill was transported from the North Las Vegas Detention Center Thursday and flown to a federal holding facility in Oklahoma.

He's expected to remain there until he is transported to New York next week, the spokesman said.

The 51-year-old Hill, one of 10 people arrested in the FBI's secrets-for-sale scandal, has been charged with selling confidential FBI information to Las Vegas private investigator Mike Levin, a former FBI agent.

Hill has been in federal custody since his June 14 arrest at the Las Vegas FBI office on theft and obstruction of justice charges in a New York complaint.

New York prosecutors expect to drop the complaint and obtain an indictment against Hill soon.

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