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2024 September 18 - 24 [US FORCES]

US soldier in Okinawa charged with sex crime

September 21, 2024
The Naha District Public Prosecutors Office in Okinawa on September 20 indicted a U.S. Marine Corps lance corporal on charges of non-consensual sex resulting in injury.

According to the charge sheet, the 20-year-old lance corporal, Michael Hofmaster, on June 21 in northern Okinawa sexually assaulted and injured a woman.

The marine is currently detained by Japanese authorities.
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