US sailor accused of injuring four at Japanese beach indicted on bodily injury charge

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YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan – Japanese prosecutors on Tuesday indicted a U.S. sailor accused of injuring several people by charging into them at a popular beach near the homeport of the U.S. 7th Fleet.

Daniel Krieger, 29, was charged with bodily injury of four people, a spokesman for the Yokohama District Public Prosecutor’s Office in Yokosuka city told Stars and Stripes by phone Thursday. The spokesman provided the sailor’s name in Japanese but declined to specify his assigned unit and rank.

Japanese government spokespeople are customarily required to speak to the media on condition of anonymity.