U.S. Serviceman in Nagasaki Nabbed for Assaulting Girlfriend

Nagasaki, Feb. 2 (Jiji Press)--The Nagasaki prefectural police department on Sunday arrested a U.S. serviceman stationed at the U.S. military base in Sasebo in the southwestern Japan Prefecture on suspicion of assaulting his girlfriend. Petty Officer First Class Lyndon Anthony Lucien Jr., 26, allegedly grabbed his 30-year-old girlfriend by the collar and threw her to the floor at his apartment in Sasebo on Sunday afternoon, according to investigative sources. The man was arrested at the scene after the woman, from the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka, reported to the police that she was assaulted by him during a quarrel over their breakup, the sources said. END