Soldier's drunken slashing nets jail sentence

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Soldier's drunken slashing nets jail sentence
By Erik Slavin, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Friday, April 18, 2008

CAMP CASEY, South Korea — Five minutes after taking a punch in the ear, Pvt. Christopher Phillips held up a lock knife and threatened his roommate.

“If you’re going to cut me, cut me,” replied Pfc. Geoffrey Mondragon, according to court documents.

So Phillips did.

On Wednesday in the Camp Casey courtroom, Phillips pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced to nine months in jail, reduction in rank to E-1 and a bad-conduct discharge.

Phillips, 20, slashed a three-inch opening along Mondragon’s neck, exposing, but not rupturing, the jugular vein.


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