Re: Japanese Cops Raid Marine's Home

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Japanese Cops Raid Marine's Home

Police searched Brown's off-base home in the city of Gushikawa and his office in Camp Courtney, both on Okinawa Island.
The raids came a day after the United States refused to hand over Maj. Michael J. Brown to Japanese authorities, saying he must first be indicted.

also: Okinawa police search U.S. Marine major's residence, office

US Marine in Okinawa given suspended sentence for molestation
Japan Today, July 8...
The prosecutors had sought a three-year prison term for Maj Michael Brown, 41, on charges of attempted rape and property destruction, but the court dismissed the attempted rape charge and found the defendant guilty of attempted molestation and property damage....
The trial took an unusual turn after the woman testified that she wanted to see the charges against Brown dropped, saying she did not want to press them in the first place.
Despite the woman's own testimony, the prosecutors said a "strict" punishment was necessary.
Brown lodged an appeal twice to have the judge removed from the case.
Brown's lawyer, Takashi Takano, said they will "carefully consider" whether to appeal the ruling.
Koshin Iraha, chief of criminal investigations of the Okinawa prefectural police, refrained from commenting on the court's decision not to recognize the attempted rape charge.
Norio Mizutani, a professor on criminal law at Osaka University, praised the court's decision to punish Brown for his action, but also said the decision to punish him for attempted molestation is "rather questionable."
According to the ruling, Brown tried to molest the woman on the morning of Nov 2, 2002, in a car in the city of Gushikawa. He was also found guilty of throwing the woman's cellphone into a river after she tried to call the police..

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Suspect was
convicted in Japan case
Charleston Daily Mail, from the staff, wire reports
Thursday October 06, 2005
A U.S. Marine Corps major charged with kidnapping a 19-year-old Milton woman was convicted in 2004 of attempted forcible indecency in connection with a case involving a woman in Okinawa, authorities said.
Maj. Michael J. Brown was arrested near Baltimore Wednesday on charges he kidnapped a Marshall University student who doesn't speak much English from a flea market on Sunday, a Cabell County deputy said.
Brown, 42, of Gaithersburg, Md., was arrested about 10 p.m. at a home near Laurel, Md., said Sgt. Mike McCallister of the Cabell County Sheriff's Department. He is being held in a Baltimore jail today....

....In November 2002, Brown was charged by Japanese authorities with forcing sexual acts on Victoria Nakamine, a Filipino woman who worked at an officers club in Okinawa, Japan, where Brown was based at the time.
In July 2004, a three-judge panel found him innocent of attempted rape but convicted Brown of attempted forcible indecency and of destruction of private property. He was sentenced to one year in a Japanese jail....
McCallister of the Cabell Sheriff's Department said today authorities are aware of the Japanese case.
The Milton case might be connected to similar cases in Texas and Massachusetts, McCallister said, adding deputies are looking further into Brown's past.