Wednesday, August 04, 2010

US marine jailed for assault in Japan


Japanese police have arrested a US Marine on the charge of sexually assaulting a woman on island of Okinawa where the public is outraged by the US military presence.

Twenty-eight-year-old Marine Sergeant Phillip Edward Sawyerr was apprehended in the capital of Naha early on Wednesday, after sexually assaulting a woman, in her 20s in her apartment, police spokesman Motoki Haneji told Bloomberg via phone.

The police were tipped off by a neighbor, and arrived at the scene within 15 minutes of receiving the call ... READ MORE