Yokosuka Taxi Driver Murder Linked to Missing US Serviceman

[Mulboyne]

Mainichi: U.S. serviceman's credit card found in cab of murdered taxi driver
Police investigating the brutal slaying of a taxi driver here have found a credit card in the vehicle believed to belong to a seaman stationed at the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base, it has been learned. The seaman has been missing for several weeks, and Kanagawa Prefectural Police and the U.S. Navy are searching for him, believing he is familiar with the circumstances of the killing. Police and U.S. military officials said that the serviceman whose name was on the credit card had been stationed on a ship at the Yokosuka base. The ship departed several weeks ago, but the serviceman was not on board. Officials from the Yokosuka-based U.S. Navy headquarters in Japan have said they will fully cooperate with Japanese investigators if the need arises...more...

[AssKissinger]

Seriously. I know a lot of people don't want to face this but the military has no fucking standards anymore. Japan needs to kick these scumbag fucks to the curb.

http://www.military-network.com/articles/new-recruits-face-softer-standards.html

How Have Military Standards Changed?
Perhaps the biggest change to recruitment standards is lowered testing standards for many non-technical positions. According to the Associated Press, the amount of recruits allowed to enlist with low aptitude scores, once percent, was raised to 4 percent in 2006. The Army has stated that low testing standards do not indicate a recruits' lack of commitment.

Other changes to recruitment standards include increased waivers for hopeful recruits who, in the past, would not meet military standards due to medical conditions, prior misdemeanor arrests, or drug and alcohol abuse. Close to 13,600 new troops were accepted in 2006 under these waivers, helping fill the recruitment gap.


Joining the Military is Easier than Ever
With new standards in place, it's easier than ever to join the United States Military. If you're still worried about meeting military standards, be sure to ask your recruiter about possible waivers. You could be en route to a military career faster than you think.

Would you want a bunch of young violent foreign idiots in your community? It's bad enough that we have to put up with this kind of idiocy in America but exporting these shitheads is just plain wrong. These fucking morons belong in prison or even better should just be fucking killed, they don't deserve to ever set foot in Japan.

[amdg]

How Have Military Standards Changed?
once percent, was raised to 4 percent in 2006.

The blurb speaks for itself.

[Tommybar]

Seriously. I know a lot of people don't want to face this but the military has no fucking standards anymore. Japan needs to kick these scumbag fucks to the curb.

Would you want a bunch of young violent foreign idiots in your community? It's bad enough that we have to put up with this kind of idiocy in America but exporting these shitheads is just plain wrong. These fucking morons belong in prison or even better should just be fucking killed, they don't deserve to ever set foot in Japan.

Sounds like they have lowered the standards enough to even let you in!

In the Stars and Stripes...
[quote]Stars and Stripes
The sailor is not a suspect, Commander U.S. Naval Forces spokesman Cmdr. David Waterman said Thursday, but “]

The guy they are looking for is a 22 year old afro-american sailor who missed ships movement (USS Cowpens) on March 2 when the ship left Yokosuka.

Reasons I find it hard to believe this 'military' guy is involved:

1. Sailors are known for beatings not stabbings, stabbings with a kitchen knife are usually Japanese.
2. Sailors don't carry kitchen knives. Pocket knives or butterfly knives, yes.
3. The cab drive still had all his money. A sailor would have taken it.

[Blah Pete]

From what I have read some things don't add uppu. He is a lower rank enlisted who had been AWOL for over 30 days. The military has cut off his pay and someone said he is 20 which probalby means he is E4 or less. Which for non-military people means he was making McDonalds wages. So, unless he has some rich J-girl supporting him he is very broke.
The crime scene reports say there was many 1-mans in a bag on the seat and in the cab drivers pockets. If a AWOL (broke) sailor did it then I suspect he may have grabbed the easy cash.

[AssKissinger]

Riiight

A cabbie gets stabbed in the back of the neck and dies. The credit card of some dipshit military cunt is found on the scene and it just so happens the same guy is on the run.

[Tommybar]

Riiight

A cabbie gets stabbed in the back of the neck and dies. The credit card of some dipshit military cunt is found on the scene and it just so happens the same guy is on the run.

I see you're a believer in 'presumed innocent until proven guilty'.

[pbm]

ask yourself this question. whether this was done by the awol military guy, or not, ask yourself this.

how easy would it be for a foreign anti us country, group, or even a jn individual that wants the us military out of japan, to pull a false ops?

pretty fuckin easy.

[MrUltimateGaijin]

ask yourself this question. whether this was done by the awol military guy, or not, ask yourself this.

how easy would it be for a foreign anti us country, group, or even a jn individual that wants the us military out of japan, to pull a false ops?

pretty fuckin easy.

how would they get his credit card?

[Takechanpoo]

Gaijin these days

[Bucky]

How Have Military Standards Changed?

Thank George W. Bush for that. The US military is wearing out after five years in Iraq. Who wants to go there and serve 12 months or 18 months only to be called back 2 years later to serve there again? They have fewer recruits so to cast a wider net when recruiting they are lowering the standards and taking candidates who would have been rejected pre-Iraq.

Mission Accomplished!:cliff:

[kamome]

http://www.military-network.com/articles/new-recruits-face-softer-standards.html

Joining the Military is Easier than Ever
With new standards in place, it's easier than ever to join the United States Military. If you're still worried about meeting military standards, be sure to ask your recruiter about possible waivers. You could be en route to a military career faster than you think.

Hey Uh-Huh, now's your chance to enlist for anti-roadside bomb duty!

[Tommybar]

Just got a news flash that they caught the sailor. Beyond that nothing was reported.

[TennoChinko]

The TV news report indicates that they caught the suspect and that he is "Nigerian American" whatever that means.

[Samurai_Jerk]

"Nigerian American" whatever that means.

Is that really all that hard to comprehend?

[TennoChinko]

Is that really all that hard to comprehend?

Kinda. Most likely "black" as far as race is concerned, but since the US military allows non-US citizens to serve as NCO's, from that term alone, it's not clear if the suspect is an American citizen or a Nigerian citizen with a Green Card.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Kinda. Most likely "black" as far as race is concerned, but since the US military allows non-US citizens to serve as NCO's, from that term alone, it's not clear if the suspect is an American citizen or a Nigerian citizen with a Green Card.

If he's a green card holder then he's not American.

[ttjereth]

If he's a green card holder then he's not American.

According to you or the Japanese media?

[Samurai_Jerk]

According to you or the Japanese media?

I mean that legally speaking he wouldn't be considered an American, so that if the J media has their facts correct they wouldn't call him "Nigeriakei Americajin" if he has a green card. They would probably say he's a Nigerian with American Eijuken. Or maybe they'd call him a Zaibei Nigeriajin

[Taro Toporific]

U.S. military arrests sailor wanted for questioning in taxi driver's killing
japan today -- Saturday, March 22, 2008 at 13:52 EST
...Japanese investigation sources said police are carefully looking into information that the soldier was hanging out with a group of Nigerians in Tokyo....

The phrase the Japanese press is using is that the sailor is of Nigerian lineage.
米海軍関係者によると、兵士はナイジェリア系で....



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カード名義人の米兵確保 在日米海軍が都内で発見
http://www.47news.jp/CN/200803/CN2008032201000367.html

　神奈川県横須賀市の路上に止まったタクシー内で東京都品川区の運転手高橋正昭さん（６１）が刺殺された事件で、在日米海軍は２２日未明、車内に残されていたクレジットカードの名義人で、今月初めに横須賀基地から脱走していた男性兵士（２２）を品川区の五反田駅付近で発見、身柄を確保した。

　県警横須賀署捜査本部は米側と連絡を取りながら、兵士が高橋さん殺害について何らかの事情を知っている可能性があるとみて調べる。

　米海軍関係者によると、兵士はナイジェリア系で、横須賀基地を拠点とする第７艦隊のイージス巡洋艦「カウペンス」乗組員の１等兵。今月１日から基地に戻らず、米海軍犯罪捜査局が脱走兵として行方を追っていた。

　県警などによると、米海軍犯罪捜査局が直接、兵士と連絡を取り、２２日未明、五反田駅付近で身柄を確保し、横須賀基地に移したという。

　捜査本部は近く、兵士への任意聴取を米側に要請し、高橋さん殺害に関与した疑いが強まれば、殺人容疑などで逮捕状を取るとみられる。

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[amdg]

once 1 percent, was raised to 4 percent in 2006

Editor: Look at that! Someone's gone an' used unce twice! Better fix that shit up.

once percent, was raised to 4 percent in 2006

Editor: There! Shit, editin's thirsty work. Time for a beer an' a rape! But in what order?

[Taro Toporific]

US military finds sailor in slain taxi driver's case
March 22, 2008 TOKYO (AFP):The US military Saturday took into custody a deserter in Japan wanted for questioning over the killing of a taxi driver but said he was not a suspect in the crime....
....the sailor's credit card was found Wednesday in a taxi in which the 61-year-old driver was stabbed to death with a kitchen knife. The blade had penetrated his neck so deeply that it reached his lung....
....The US Navy said in the statement that "the sailor has not been named as a suspect in the recent tragic murder of the taxi driver--- but may have information regarding the murder."....
....Media specified that the sailor was of Nigerian descent and that police were investigating a meeting he had with a group of Nigerians but did not give further details...more...

[AssKissinger]

A Nigerian-American sailor in Japan. What a fucking combo.

[Greji]

A Nigerian-American sailor in Japan. What a fucking combo.

Roppongi is an annex of Abuja. Other FGs need a Nigerian Visa to go there, unless they are applying to pass out handbills for new clubs.

[canman]

Like they wanted to say black sailor, but figured they would get nailed for being racist, so they decided to go with his nationality, which still lets everyone know that he is black. Oh my God, violent AJ ws right, the race wars have begun!!! The "Japs" are out to kill and defame all blacks. Mark this day the race wars have started.

[Greji]

the race wars have started.

Oh no! They've already started? I didn't get my bet on....

[kurohinge1]

A Nigerian-American sailor in Japan . . .

Perhaps he is a senior civil servant seeking a reputable foreign company into whose account he can deposit funds ranging from $10-$60 million which the Nigerian government overpaid on some procurement contract, etc?

. . . 4-1-9

[Greji]

Perhaps he is a senior civil servant seeking a reputable foreign company into whose account he can deposit funds ranging from $10-$60 million which the Nigerian government overpaid on some procurement contract, etc?

Oh man! I hope it ain't him Kuro, I just sent me advance to him and am waiting for him to transfer all the promised funds!

[Baka Chan]

[quote="kurohinge1"]Perhaps he is a senior civil servant seeking a reputable foreign company into whose account he can deposit funds ranging from $10-$60 million which the Nigerian government overpaid on some procurement contract, etc?

. . . 4-1-9

]

KLASSIK!!!!

[Mulboyne]

Asahi: U.S. sailor held, says he didn't kill driver

A U.S. sailor sought in connection with the slaying of a taxi driver here was taken into U.S. Navy custody early Saturday... In questioning by U.S. Navy authorities, the sailor denied involvement in the murder, sources close to the investigation said. On Sunday, the Kanagawa prefectural police sounded out the U.S. Navy about allowing them to question the sailor on a voluntary basis. U.S. Naval Forces Japan Commander Rear Adm. James Kelly told reporters the same day that the Navy was ready to cooperate with Japanese investigators in any way. In a statement Saturday, the U.S. Navy said the sailor is not being treated as a murder suspect but may have information on the case. Prefectural police said, meanwhile, that there is nothing to link the sailor to the crime nor evidence that he was in the taxi on the night of the murder. The U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service took him into custody at 3:41 a.m. Saturday in Tokyo's Gotanda district after he contacted base officials to sort out the matter... Prefectural police want to question the sailor about his whereabouts on the night of Takahashi's murder since his credit card remains one of their strongest leads. Police have so far established that Takahashi picked up a passenger at Tokyo's Shinagawa Station around 8 p.m. that night and likely headed for Yokosuka. Takahashi was found dead some 80 minutes later about a kilometer away from the base. Cash was found in the taxi.