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TURNED OVER. TIMOTHY WOODLAND, 24, U.S. Air Force sergeant accused of raping a Japanese woman in her 20s in a parking lot last month; to local authorities; in Okinawa, Japan. The U.S. released Woodland into Japanese custody without an indictment after the Japanese government agreed to allow him access to legal counsel and a translator during police interrogations--privileges not usually available to suspects in Japan...
...Japan. A woman in her 20s told police that a foreigner raped her early Friday morning in the parking lot of a shopping mall in Chatan, not far from the Kadena base. Details of the alleged crime are sketchy, but for several hours police questioned an Air Force technical sergeant identified as a suspect. "We need measures to prevent unnecessary friction or bad feelings between the Japanese people and the U.S. forces," Koizumi said after arriving in Washington...
...complex relationship between the U.S. and Japan. Early Friday morning, a woman in her twenties told police that a foreigner raped her in a parking lot of a shopping mall not far from the Kadena base. Police later said they had identified a U.S. Air Force technical sergeant as a suspect. The details of the alleged crime were sketchy, and unsubstantiated media reports were confusing, contradictory and downright inflammatory. First the incident was reported as a gang rape. Then there were reports that several Americans stood by while the rape occurred. None of that was true. But police questioned several...
...Kyllo was arrested in 1992 after an Oregon National Guard sergeant used military equipment - an Agema Thermovision 210, which could detect different levels of infrared heat emanating from a building - to find that part of Kyllo's triplex was putting out a relatively large amount of heat. Thanks to the splotchy picture produced by the thermal imaging device, the cops were able to get a search warrant, go into Kyllo's home and find that he was growing about 100 marijuana plants in a room above the garage, under high-intensity lamps. In previous decisions dealing with this technology, courts...
...checks at a phony U.S. address. And some people here do nothing but drink. Yet there is also Katherine Hammontre, a former legal secretary who moved here so she could keep six dogs "without the neighbors calling the cops." Her friends Bill and Kay Gabbard--a retired Marine Corps sergeant and his schoolteacher wife--distribute hundreds of Spanish-language textbooks to San Felipe schools. And Bruce Barber, a former food-company executive, combs the desert for the grave of a 16th century explorer. What brings them all to the far edge of the Sonoran desert? Lou Wells, a onetime railroad...