By: Jimmie E. Gates

Five former Eaton Aerospace engineers now are facing charges of possession of trade secrets under a new federal indictment.

The trial of Rodney Case, Kevin Clark, Mike Fulton, Douglas Murphy and James Ward had been set this month for April 13 on a conspiracy-to-defraud charge, but it's uncertain whether the new indictment will affect the date.

The five engineers initially were accused of stealing secrets from Jackson-based Eaton Aerospace and of taking them to Frisby Aerospace in Clemmons, N.C., where they started working in January 2002. Frisby now is known as Triumph Actuation Systems.

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