Jpn woman (20) missing in Okinawa; US military suspect

[matsuki]

First nations just sounds like a super PC way to not be offensive without really knowing anything about the people they are referring to. I try to use tribal names where I can. The least people can do is know the names/history of the territory they now occupy.

[Mike Oxlong]

They are having a really hard time not joining in the local custom of drink driving.

U.S. civilian arrested in fresh Okinawa DUI case; man injured

A civilian worker at a U.S. base in Okinawa Prefecture was arrested early Sunday morning on suspicion of drunken driving after a two-car collision.

Okinawa Prefectural Police identified the suspect as Francis Shayquain. The 24-year-old resident of the city of Okinawa was allegedly driving under the influence near his home off base at around 4:30 a.m.

The arrest comes despite increased efforts to bolster discipline among U.S. base personnel in the prefecture, which hosts the bulk of U.S. military facilities in Japan.

The suspect, an employee of a shop on a U.S. military base, denied the allegation, saying he had not consumed alcohol since the previous day, according to the police.

A breath test given by police found the man’s blood-alcohol level to be four times above the legal limit.

The U.S. military recently prohibited service members in the prefecture from drinking off-base and outside their houses to strengthen discipline after the alleged murder and rape of a 20-year-old Okinawa woman by a U.S. civilian base worker last month.

The U.S. military had also encouraged civilian workers on bases there to adhere to the ban, initially imposed until June 24 and later extended until Tuesday.

Police arrested the suspect after his vehicle hit another car at an intersection. Its male driver was taken to a hospital.

Earlier this month, a U.S. sailor was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in the same prefecture that injured two people.

The alleged murder and rape fueled local anger, spurring tens of thousands of people to hold a rally a week ago to protest crimes committed by U.S. military personnel.

Under a decades-old security alliance, Okinawa hosts about 26,000 U.S. service personnel, more than half the total Washington keeps in all of Japan, in addition to base workers and family members.

Crimes ranging from rape to assault and hit-and-run accidents by U.S. military personnel, dependents and civilians have long sparked protests in the prefecture, which has fought tooth and nail for the removal of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/0 ... n-injured/

[matsuki]

[Mike Oxlong]

Independence Day DUI...

Okinawa cops accuse another U.S. serviceman of drunk driving
Suspect denies the charges, telling police, 'I didn't drink at all'

In the latest incident involving a person affiliated with a U.S. base in Okinawa, prefectural police early Monday arrested a serviceman from Kadena Air Base on charges of drunk driving in Naha City, reports Jiji Press (July 4).

At approximately 4:05 a.m. on Sunday, police stopped and questioned Christopher Aaron Platte, a 27-year-old staff sergeant, who was driving on a road in the town of Chatan. During questioning, police noticed liquor on the suspect’s breath. The results of a breathalyzer test revealed an alcohol level in excess of the legal limit.

Platt denies the charges. “I didn’t drink at all,” the suspect is quoted by police.

Prior to pulling Platt over, police observed his vehicle weaving on the road.

Only the latest arrest

The arrest is only the latest arrest involving personnel affiliated with a base. On June 26, police arrested Francis Shayquan, 24, a shop clerk at Kadena Air Base, on suspicion of driving while intoxicated at an intersection in Momohara City. Earlier that month, police arrested four civilians employed at the same base for the import, use and possession of illegal drugs.

The U.S. Navy imposed a drinking ban on its members and civilian personnel in Okinawa from May 27 to June 28 as part of a “unity and mourning” period in light of public uproar after Kenneth Franklin Shinzato, a U.S. military contractor and former marine, admitted to raping and murdering 20-year-old Rina Shimabukuro.

But on June 4 during the drinking ban, Aimee Mejia, 21, a U.S. Navy worker, was charged with drunk driving after she drove the wrong way along a highway and smashed head-on into two cars and injuring two individuals.

http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2016/07/04 ... k-driving/

[matsuki]

ban all alcohol for a month? (and see how many get arrested for DUI the day after)

[J.A.F.O]

There was a unwritten ban against Officers driving in Naha City on the weekends. What apparently is happening is that if you pass the breathalyser the first time they have you wash your mouth out with a shot of some liquid and take it again... then fail. It's happening enough for the uppers to stay out of there.

[Russell]

There was a unwritten ban against Officers driving in Naha City on the weekends. What apparently is happening is that if you pass the breathalyser the first time they have you wash your mouth out with a shot of some liquid and take it again... then fail. It's happening enough for the uppers to stay out of there.

I suppose it is not obligatory to wash your mouth with that liquid?

[matsuki]

The local PD have a very odd definition of voluntary...

[Mike Oxlong]

There was a unwritten ban against Officers driving in Naha City on the weekends. What apparently is happening is that if you pass the breathalyser the first time they have you wash your mouth out with a shot of some liquid and take it again... then fail. It's happening enough for the uppers to stay out of there.

I suppose it is not obligatory to wash your mouth with that liquid?

That sounds like one of those tall tales sailors tell to explain the smell of mouthwash on their breath.

[matsuki]

Could be...if only there were video cameras on the police here...

[J.A.F.O]

It could be, but one of my students is an 0-3 and when our fighters had an event in Naha he couldn't go unless someone else drove. Then precoded to explain to me what I just wrote above. So even if the it is inaccurate it has happened enough to make the top brace caution the lower brass... Fuck the enlisted though let them get DUIs

[Mike Oxlong]

Must have been a hell of an apology.

Kadena civilian gets suspended sentence in meth case

A civilian employee at Kadena Air Base received a suspended sentence for importing and abusing methamphetamine, a serious and rare crime in drug-averse Japan.

Milton Richmond King II, 51, was sentenced to three years in prison Monday by a three-judge Naha District Court panel but will avoid jail time if he stays out of trouble for five years.

In its decision, the panel cited King’s previously pristine record, confession and remorse.

The judges said they wanted to give King the opportunity to seek rehabilitation in the community. He will likely not face mandatory deportation because he has family ties to the area and will not be subject to drug testing.

http://okinawa.stripes.com/news/kadena- ... -meth-case

[Samurai_Jerk]

abusing methamphetamine, a ... rare crime in drug-averse Japan.

[Mike Oxlong]

Shinzato to stand trial in Okinawa

Japan’s Supreme Court has said no to a petition by Kenneth Franklin Shinzato, who is charged with the rape and murder of a 20-year-old Okinawan woman in May. Shinzato’s lawyer submitted the petition on behalf of his client in July to transfer the trial to Tokyo District Court from Okinawan court because Shinzato insists that he can’t get a fair trial in Okinawa.

The Supreme Court handed down its ruling on Monday. According to the presiding Justice Yoshinobu Onuki, a fair trial is guaranteed under the lay judge system, so there’s no reason to change the venue. Shinzato had argued that the media in Okinawa has infected Okinawan residents with negative feelings “entrenched by animosity,” and thus the lay judges (jury) for the trial, who are selected among local residents, would have advance negative opinions regarding his guilt.

The rejection means that Shinzato will face the court in Naha. Justice Katsumi Chiba of the Supreme Court said that regardless of particular circumstances and thoughts of local residents, district court judges can be fully counted on to conduct a fair trial.

http://www.japanupdate.com/2016/08/shin ... n-okinawa/

[Coligny]

Comedy gold...

[kurogane]

I imagine the Globali;te cadres will be spitting and ranting about this, but surely the litmus test is what would Taro do (WWTD)? Not our Taro, beloved as he be. Like......well...........Taro. The typical Japanese rapist murderer. He'd be tried where he is, too. Next motion, please.
So, can an accused not choose a real judge only trial rather than a lay judge trial? That would be the legal bits that worry me.

[matsuki]

I guess he doesn't realize that (barring some major fuckup) he's already convicted if he's going to trial? At that point, he'd have more hope with a non "pro" judges....even in Okinawa. Then there is that whole issue of confessing and pointing the police to the body dumpsite, if true, is pretty much proving his guilt and convicting himself.

[Takechanpoo]

https://www.facebook.com/sylvia.runyon/ ... 061&type=3

[Mike Oxlong]

Attorney: Former Marine charged with rape, murder suffered mental illness

The lawyer for a former Marine charged with raping and murdering a Japanese woman claims his client has long suffered from mental illness and hallucinations, setting the stage for a possible defense in a case that enflamed U.S.-Japanese relations.

Kenneth Franklin Gadson, a civilian employee at Kadena Air Base’s Mediatti cable and internet provider who goes by his Japanese wife’s surname of Shinzato, was charged by Japanese prosecutors two months after Rina Shimabukuro, 20, disappeared April 28. Gadson took police to the wooded area where her remains were found.

The brutal slaying horrified the Japanese, triggering an uproar of anti-American sentiment on the tiny island prefecture, where half of about 50,000 U.S. troops in Japan are based.

President Barack Obama apologized for the crime during his May visit to Japan following a strong rebuke from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

No trial date has been set. Defense attorney Toshimitsu Takaesu said that the case is slated to be heard by six jurors from Okinawa and a three-judge Naha District Court panel. Gadson could face the death penalty if convicted, though it is rarely imposed in Japan for single homicides.

During Japanese police questioning after surveillance video spotted his red SUV in the area where Shimabukuro vanished, Gadson confessed to strangling her, Takaesu and police say.

In an interview with Stars and Stripes, Takaesu said his client was questioned while under the influence of sleeping pills after a suicide attempt and has no recollection of confessing.

Officials from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service told Stars and Stripes they were contacting authorities to determine whether there were similarities to unsolved homicides in the area or near his previous duty stations.

The U.S. Marine Corps has said little about the case, although it provided a redacted copy of Gadson’s personnel records that contained no indication of mental illness.

Like the U.S., Japan takes mental illness into account in court proceedings. Japan’s penal code includes provisions for insanity and diminished capacity. An act of insanity is not punishable in the prison system, while an act of diminished capacity can lead to a reduction in punishment. Where the accused will be sent — prison or a mental hospital — is generally handed down with the verdict.

In the interview with Stars and Stripes, Takaesu said his client had long suffered from “visual and auditory” hallucinations. “It is questionable how much he can discern is real. It seems that he watches what he does through a filter … I will determine if we need to have a psychiatric evaluation on him after I obtain the necessary information” from Gadson’s hometown of New York City.

Health care paperwork from Gadson’s youth, provided to Stars and Stripes by Takaesu, does not substantiate claims of hallucinations but paints a picture of a troubled youth, a broken home and a parent ill-equipped to rear him.

A “termination summary” from Upper Manhattan Mental Health Center Inc., dated Aug. 14, 1997, says Gadson had been a patient for more than four years. He was brought in by his mother for therapy after poor academic performance, disruptive classroom behavior, temper tantrums and defiance toward her.

The paperwork describes Gadson’s mother as “cognitively limited,” and says the two had an “enmeshed relationship,” which complicated his treatment.

“When he was a teenager, [Gadson] often inflicted violence on his mother and left home for days without telling her,” Takaesu said. “His memories of his mother are mentally blocked.”

Gadson’s birth certificate lists no father, Takaesu said.

During the course of his treatment, Gadson saw the same therapist for weekly solo sessions, monthly sessions that included his mother, and periodic group sessions, the paperwork says. Treatment goals included improved motivation and academic performance, impulse control, responsiveness to authority figures and ability to talk about his feelings.

However, therapists were apparently unable to connect with Gadson, who “passively resisted any emotional closeness” to his therapist, the paperwork said.

Treatment ended when Gadson went into foster care in January 1997. The documents say he was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and socialized, non-aggressive, conduct disorder.

Conduct disorder is often associated with other mental problems, such as ADHD, which has been known to make the disorder worse and harder to treat, said a 2005 report drafted by a global team of experts in conjunction with the French National Medical Research Institute.

“Conduct disorder in children and adolescents may be expressed in the form of any of a range of diverse behavioral patterns, from the frequent and intense temper tantrums and persistent disobedience of the difficult child to the delinquent’s serious acts of aggression, such as theft, violence and rape,” the report said. “The major characteristic of the disorder is the violation of the rights of others and social norms.”

Takaesu said his client told him that his anti-social behavior got worse as he lived with five or six families in foster care. He said he was medicated with the anti-depressant Zoloft, though he didn’t have a prescription. Stars and Stripes could not verify those claims.

At 18, Gadson moved alone into an apartment that was within walking distance of his mother’s home, Takaesu said. Their volatile relationship continued.

New York officials did not provide information about Gadson or any potential criminal activity associated with him, citing privacy concerns. A search of public records did not indicate he had been charged with a felony, which would have prevented his service in the Marine Corps.

After joining the Marines in 2007, Gadson said he began suffering from insomnia that intensified despite the use of sleeping aids. According to his personnel record, Gadson underwent training at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina before he was assigned to Okinawa in supply administration and operations, where he stayed until September 2011, when he reported to Marine Barracks Washington. He left active duty in September 2014 with an honorable discharge and moved back to Okinawa, his attorney said.

Gadson married an Okinawan woman and they had a child in March. After the birth, his wife began pressuring him to bring the child to meet his mother. Gadson reluctantly agreed, though the visit never occurred.

After their marriage, Gadson legally changed his name to Shinzato because he said he didn’t like Gadson and its connection to his mother, Takaesu said.

Gadson told his attorney that he left the military because he did not want to take his wife to a new post in the states. He did not want her to be influenced by U.S. society, which he said is not a “caring society.”

Discussing his wife is the only time he has gotten emotional, Takaesu said. She told the attorney that Gadson never showed emotion aside from depression and vented by watching violent movies, repeatedly replaying the same scenes.

“For him, women are either good or they are his enemy,” said Takaesu, who said Gadson described them as “sneaky.” “There is no gray zone. Asked how he can tell if the woman is a good person or not, he said, ‘It’s in the eye. You can tell.’”

http://www.stripes.com/news/attorney-fo ... s-1.427168

[matsuki]

Sympathy for the guy for such a messed up childhood, that would put even the healthiest of minds in a bad mental state....but sounds like he's beyond help and now with what he's done, he needs to be locked up for good.

[Taka-Okami]

Sick of this leftist bullshit. "Oh he's just misunderstood, had a hard life, blah blah blah". Fuck him. Just shoot the filthy carnt and be done with it.
These scum deserve no mercy.

[Coligny]

Sick of this leftist bullshit. "Oh he's just misunderstood, had a hard life, blah blah blah". Fuck him. Just shoot the filthy carnt and be done with it.
These scum deserve no mercy.

Why ? Did the article mention it was a negro ? I didn't see it...

[Mike Oxlong]

U.S. base worker accused of killing woman to deny murder intent

A U.S. civilian base worker indicted for raping and slaying a 20-year-old woman in Okinawa will deny murderous intent at his trial, his defense says.

But Kenneth Franklin Shinzato, 33, will admit to charges of rape resulting in death and to abandoning the victim’s body, according to the defense.

The Naha District Court, prosecutors and his defense have agreed to hold the first pretrial conference on March 10, according to the defense for Shinzato, a former U.S. Marine.

Shinzato will likely be tried under a lay judge system with three professional and six lay judges.

According to the indictment, Shinzato is suspected of assaulting the woman on a road in Uruma in central Okinawa Prefecture on the night of April 28 last year, for the purpose of raping her. After hitting her on the head with a bar, he stabbed her in the neck with a knife so she would not resist, murdering her as a result.

Last July, Shinzato told the U.S. military newspaper Stars and Stripes that he “did not have the intention of killing the victim.”

According to investigative sources, Shinzato initially hinted during police questioning at murdering the victim, saying he stabbed her with a knife, before remaining silent.

The case sparked public anger in Okinawa, home to the bulk of U.S. military facilities in Japan.

Shinzato had requested his trial be held outside Okinawa, saying it was unlikely a fair trial could be held there due to the strong anti-U.S. base sentiment.

Following the incident, Tokyo and Washington signed a pact to remove some U.S. military base workers, classified as the “civil component,” from special legal protections granted to base personnel under the bilateral status of forces agreement.

https://www.japantoday.com/category/cri ... der-intent

[Mike Oxlong]

Marine dreams of raping women for years

Former U.S. Marine Kenneth Shinzato, 32 and charged with killing a Japanese woman near an Okinawa, Japan military base, reportedly “had voices in his head and fantasized about raping women for years.”

The murder suspect shared shocking details with his attorney Toshimitsu Takaesu regarding the abduction and murder of a woman in April 2016. It had been a fantasy to kidnap, restrain and rape women for years. He even admitted having suicidal fantasies and that he’s heard voices since he was eight years old.

“I saw a red, full moon and I just knew that that was a sign,” he said, sharing this was a measure to confirm who’d be the next victim.

Shinzato worked as a civilian contractor for a cable and internet company at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa.

He has been charged with the murder, rape, and illegal disposal of a body in the death of Rina Shimabukuro, 20. She was reported missing on April 28 after going for a walk. Her body was found three weeks later.

Shinzato was born Kenneth Franklin Gadson. He took his Japanese wife’s last name.

Here’s a list of the most haunting facts of his confession:

In 2007, he claims he told Marine recruiters that he wanted to join the military primarily because he “wanted to kill people.”
He didn’t intend to kill Shimabukuro and claims he only stabbed her with a knife to “find out” if she was dead. “When I disposed of her, I thought she may have said something. I thought that she may be alive, so I stabbed her with a knife to find out.”
“When she passed my car and I saw her more clearly, I heard the voice in my head tell me, ‘It’s her’ and that she’s the one that will fulfill my fantasy.”
“I wasn’t 100 percent sure that she was the right one, but when I looked up, I saw a red, full moon and I just knew that that was a sign.” (He then hit her in the head with a stick.)
“I intended to hit her with the stick and make her lose consciousness, then put her in the suitcase, take her to a hotel and then rape her.”
“I was expecting the police to come for me in a few days, but since they didn’t I stopped worrying about it. I continued with my daily routine and went to work as usual. I didn’t really think about the girl.”
Shinzato will start his pretrial process on March 10 and his trial is likely to begin around June.

http://rollingout.com/2017/02/13/marine ... men-years/

[matsuki]

Lock this mental case up for life. Please...

[wagyl]

:puke:

Lock this mental case up for life. Please...

That is a bit harsh. I know that Mike can get a bit extreme sometimes, but I don't think you can call him a full-blown mental case.

[Mike Oxlong]

:puke:

Lock this mental case up for life. Please...

That is a bit harsh. I know that Mike can get a bit extreme sometimes, but I don't think you can call him a full-blown mental case.

[matsuki]

LOL

Wonder if they'll every be able to catch most of these types in basic psych evals.

[Mike Oxlong]

In 2007, he claims he told Marine recruiters that he wanted to join the military primarily because he “wanted to kill people.”

Pretty sure them's the magic words if you wanna wear the uniform.

[matsuki]

In 2007, he claims he told Marine recruiters that he wanted to join the military primarily because he “wanted to kill people.”

Pretty sure them's the magic words if you wanna wear the uniform.

I seriously doubt he really said that....with all the base shootings and such, they'd be insane to recruit him.