U.S. sailor gets life in prison for killing Japanese taxi driver
This has more twists and turns….including little voices telling him things….FYI Japan has the death penalty for capital crimes like this, he got a ligher sentence than what a lot of locals wanted to hand out.
Olatunbosun Ugbogu, a 23-year-old Nigerian citizen serving in the U.S. Navy, was found guilty of stabbing 61-year-old Masaaki Takahashi to death near a U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, in March 2008, according to a Foreign Ministry official who declined to be named, citing department policy.
Ugbogu was initially apprehended by U.S. Navy authorities in Tokyo on a desertion charge, but was handed over to Japanese authorities because a credit card in his name was found in the victim’s car.