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2013 January 30 - February 5 [US FORCES]

USS George Washington sailor arrested again

The Tobe Police Station in Kanagawa Prefecture on February 1 rearrested a U.S. sailor, the same one arrested on the spot the other day for an alleged assault on a Japanese man, on suspicion of molesting a woman.

The suspect is John Canfield, a 22-year-old seaman of the USS George Washington deployed to the U.S. Yokosuka Naval Base in the prefecture. He allegedly told the police that he was drunk and remembered nothing.

The serviceman in the afternoon on January 21 pushed a 24-year-old Japanese female worker living in Kanagawa’s Yamato City against the wall and touched her breast within a commercial building adjoining Yokohama Station, said the police.

The sailor was arrested on the same day on a charge of hitting a Japanese male guard in his face and slightly injuring him when he told the seaman to stop his obscene act.