Airman guilty after latest brush with law

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Airman guilty after latest brush with law
By Vince Little, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Friday, August 29, 2008

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — An airman assigned to the 374th Maintenance Squadron pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol and fleeing apprehension at his court-martial Wednesday.

Staff Sgt. Anthony A. Brackett, 24, was sentenced to 90 days of confinement, handed a bad-conduct discharge and reduced in rank to airman basic in connection with a June incident at Hardy Barracks in Tokyo.

Col. Mark L. Allred, the military judge, knocked off 58 days for time served in pretrial confinement.

According to testimony, Brackett was walking back to Hardy Barracks with another Yokota airman on the morning of June 28 after a night of partying in Roppongi. As he signed in a female guest around 9 a.m., two Japanese gate guards noticed he was drinking from an open container of alcohol.

Several minutes later, Brackett was spotted emerging from Hardy Barracks and getting into his friend’s car, according to testimony. He attempted to drive off but was stopped by the guards.


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