Jenkins leaves Tokyo hospital to surrender to U.S. authorities

[Kadie]

Jenkins leaves Tokyo hospital to surrender to U.S. authorities

Friday, September 10, 2004


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(09-10) 17:20 PDT TOKYO (AP) --

Accused U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins left his Tokyo hospital for a U.S. military base Saturday to surrender to American military authorities nearly 40 years after he allegedly defected to North Korea.

Jenkins, who has been hospitalized since arriving in Japan in July, was expected to turn himself in at the U.S. Army's Camp Zama just south of Tokyo.

As he left, Jenkins was accompanied by his Japanese wife and their two daughters. They boarded a beige minivan together before being driven out of hospital grounds.

Jenkins, who is charged with deserting his Army unit in 1965 along the Demilitiarized Zone and defecting to the North, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted.

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[rfranklin]

1. He and Bush can share a cell...

They have so much in common.

[Catch22Dem]

2. So, he's gonna be put on active duty?

"Jenkins will be supplied with whatever he needs to resume active duty, including a haircut and a uniform."

Gimmie a fuckin' break!

[Julien Sorel]

3. This is some silly, silly shit.

If they are going to try to nail this guy for desertion, then Bush should still be on the hook for going AWOL and coking up on those few occasions when he actually did show up to fulfill his obligations.