OKINAWA, Japan, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. airman at Kadena Air Base in Japan faces court-martial in the stabbing death of Tech. Sgt. Curtis Eccleston, the Air Force said.
Staff Sgt. Nicholas Cron of the 733rd Air Mobility Squadron at Kadena Air Base is charged with premeditated murder, conspiracy to commit murder and obstruction of justice in Eccleston's death, Stars and Stripes reported Monday.
Eccleston, 30, was found dead Feb. 6 in an apartment he shared with his wife, Barbara Keiko Eccleston, near Camp Lester. He bled to death from a cut on his neck, Japanese police said.
Eccleston's wife, who is a Brazilian national, was arrested and accused of conspiring with another person to kill her husband.
Cron was taken into custody on Feb. 13 by military authorities. The Air Force said Cron's court-martial is a capital case, which means the military judge or court-martial panel "could consider all potential punishments authorized under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, including a death sentence, life with or without eligibility for parole and other punishments," the Air Force 18th Wing said Monday in a release.
Barbara Eccleston's case will be heard in an Okinawa criminal court, the newspaper said.
