Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Four U.S. teens face Japanese charges

|
|
 
  
Published: Dec. 5, 2009 at 1:56 PM

TOKYO, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Four teenagers -- all children of U.S. military personnel in Japan -- have been arrested on charges of attempted murder, authorities say.

Tokyo Metropolitan Police officials allege the teens, between the ages of 15 and 18, stretched a rope across a Tokyo road that caught a woman riding a motor scooter, causing her to fall off and fracture her skull on Aug. 13, The Mainichi Daily News reported Saturday.

The teens all lived at the U.S. Air Force's Yokota Air Base and military authorities were reluctant to hand them over, the newspaper said. But U.S. officials told Tokyo police Friday they would turn in the alleged perpetrators.

Prosecutors say the four -- who were identified from security camera footage -- stretched out a rope blocking the entrance of a transportation firm.

© 2009 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
The Tibetan Moniam Festival in China Super Bowl XLVI ticker tape victory parade The making of the Oscars
The Chicago Auto Show The Most Desirable Women of 2012 Tu Bishvat Migron settlement
Additional U.S. News Stories
1 of 21
President Obama Signs Smuggling Prevention Act at White House
View Caption
fark
You're a female air traveler and there's no female TSA agent to screen you? No problem, there's...
Despite their efforts to convince you otherwise, many "foodies" can't, in a blind taste test, tell...
Photoshop this urban underground dweller
Kim Jong Un Dead. I repeat - Un Dead
Nothing is more romantic on Valentine's Day than taking your lover on a tour of New York's sewers...
Man arrested for writing 'bomb' on some toilet paper. "His family says the word 'bomb' is often...