U.S. Marine held on suspicion of assaulting restaurant worker in Okinawa

NAHA –

The Okinawa Prefectural Police on Monday arrested U.S. Marine Corps warrant officer William Ramossort, 37, on suspicion of assaulting a restaurant worker in the prefectural capital of Naha.

Ramossort, assigned to the Marine Corps’ Camp Kinser in Urasoe, is suspected of pressing his hand against the neck of a 41-year-old male restaurant employee and causing abrasions on a Naha street at around 4 a.m. Monday.

The suspect has denied the allegations.

According to the police, Ramossort was intoxicated at the time and did not know the victim. A passerby called the police, and the suspect was arrested on the spot.