By Xinhua
Tokyo : A Japan-based U.S. Navy serviceman whose credit card was found in a taxi had admitted killing the cabby, Japanese media reported on Wednesday.
The 22-year-old sailor, who was arrested by the U.S. Navy on March 22 around central Tokyo’s Gotanda train station, confessed the crime on Tuesday, Kyodo News quoted sources close to the investigation as telling.
The 61-year-old cabby was found dead from knife injury on the neck in his taxi on March 19 in Yokosuka city of Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. He was an employee of a taxi company based in eastern Tokyo’s Shinagawa Prefecture.
The sailor, a crew member of the U.S. 7th Fleet’s cruiser Cowpens, based at Yokosuka, had been out of his base without report since early March until being arrested.
Japanese police officers visited the base on Wednesday morning. If a murder case were built against the sailor, he will be transferred to Japanese police according to a bilateral security agreement between Japan and the United States.