OKLAHOMA CITY ? An attorney claims in a filing that he does not have enough information to adequately defend a museum director accused of stealing artifacts from a Kansas space museum.

Attorney Lee Thompson filed papers Friday in federal court in Wichita, Kan., seeking specific details about the alleged misdeeds of Oklahoma City’s Omniplex Director Max L. Ary. A 45-page indictment against Ary was released last week.

Ary, who is on leave from the Omniplex, is accused of stealing items belonging to NASA and the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, the Hutchinson, Kan., museum he founded in 1976. The indictment claims he sold some of those items and deposited as much as $80,000 in a personal bank account.

Ary maintains his innocence. And Thompson insists he needs more details from federal prosecutors to mount Ary’s defense.

“As the filed documents indicate, the motion requests that the government provide appropriate details about specific duties Mr. Ary is claimed to have violated, specific misrepresentations he is claimed to have made, and that the government identify the specific items he is claimed to have stolen,” Thompson said in an e-mail to The Oklahoman.

Federal prosecutors in Kansas declined to comment Monday.