Sailor detained after windows are broken in home, cars at Busan

By Ashley Rowland and Hwang Hae-rym, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Sunday, July 20, 2008 A 23-year-old sailor from the USS Ronald Reagan was arrested Thursday morning after breaking the windows on a private home and the sunroofs of two cars parked nearby, a Busan Haeundae police spokesman said. The sailor was drunk during the 12:30 a.m. incident in a neighborhood near Busan’s Haeundae beach, the spokesman said. The sailor was released after being questioned, and was allowed to leave South Korea with the aircraft carrier Friday morning after reaching a financial settlement with the homeowner and two car owners, he said. Lt. Ron Flanders, spokesman for the aircraft carrier, said the sailor is a second class petty officer assigned to a helicopter anti-submarine squadron. He did not provide the sailor’s name, but said he... [read full story]