
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.
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