June 3, 2013
Okinawa’s Ginowan Police on June 2 arrested a drunken U.S. airman for vandalizing a parked car.
The U.S. forces in Okinawa has imposed on all military personnel an off-base drinking ban since December 2012 in the wake of frequent alcohol offenses. The ban was partially relaxed on the day just before the incident happened.
The arrested man was a 22-year-old soldier stationed at the U.S. Kadena Air Base.
According to the police, at around half past five in the morning of that day, a neighbor at a timber merchant’s parking lot in Ginowan City reported to the police that a shirtless foreigner was banging up a car.
After arriving at the spot, police officers found the serviceman hitting the car owned by a 55-year-old man in Yomitan Village with a piece of lumber. The airman, reportedly intoxicated at the time of incident, had no memory of what he did, the police said.
The U.S. forces in Okinawa has imposed on all military personnel an off-base drinking ban since December 2012 in the wake of frequent alcohol offenses. The ban was partially relaxed on the day just before the incident happened.
The arrested man was a 22-year-old soldier stationed at the U.S. Kadena Air Base.
According to the police, at around half past five in the morning of that day, a neighbor at a timber merchant’s parking lot in Ginowan City reported to the police that a shirtless foreigner was banging up a car.
After arriving at the spot, police officers found the serviceman hitting the car owned by a 55-year-old man in Yomitan Village with a piece of lumber. The airman, reportedly intoxicated at the time of incident, had no memory of what he did, the police said.
