U.S. Soldier and Base Worker Accused of Robbing $65k from Exchange Shop Outside of Camp Foster
|This soldier’s commander must have gave himself a facepalm after getting the phone call about this:
Two people who live and work at Kadena Air Base are suspected of making off with nearly $65,000 in the armed robbery of a currency exchange shop on Okinawa.
The business, which isn’t far from Camp Foster’s front gate, was robbed by two mask-wearing perpetrators about 4 p.m. Tuesday, according to an Okinawa Police spokesman who spoke on a customary condition of anonymity.
One or both of the suspects went behind the shop’s counter while brandishing a knife-like object, threatened an employee and demanded money, the spokesman said. They ran out with $64,700 in Japanese and U.S. currency. No one was injured.
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My math might be bad; but $65,000.00 is a pretty cheap haul if it nets the two 20 years in a Japanese prison.