Naha prosecutors on Oct. 25 indicted U.S. Marine Corps service member Devon Ballard on robbery and murder charges, alleging he killed a local woman in a Naha hotel and stole her belongings. The indictment says Ballard strangled the woman with a telep

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Naha prosecutors on Oct. 25 indicted U.S. Marine Corps service member Devon Ballard on robbery and murder charges, alleging he killed a local woman in a Naha hotel and stole her belongings. The indictment says Ballard strangled the woman with a telephone handset cord on Oct. 3 and took her backpack; Okinawa prefectural police arrested him on Oct. 4.

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