A U.S. serviceman in Okinawa was arrested early Monday for drunken driving, the first such arrest since the U.S. military lifted a curfew there that was imposed to quell local furor over the murder of a Japanese woman linked to a civilian U.S. base worker.
According to Okinawa police, Christopher Aaron Platte, 27, a technical sergeant stationed at Kadena Air Base, was arrested in the town of Chatan at 4:05 a.m. Monday on suspicion of driving under the influence.
Platte denied the charges, but a blood-alcohol test showed he had a level above the legal limit, police alleged. They stopped Platte's car because he was allegedly driving erratically.
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