Officials: Arrests of 8 soldiers never actually happened

Officials: Arrests of 8 soldiers never actually happened
By T.D. Flack, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, January 19, 2008

SEOUL — U.S. Army officials said Thursday that the eight soldiers they earlier reported under arrest in connection with an ongoing drug investigation were never arrested.

But 8th Army spokesman Lt. Col. Brodrick Bailey refused to clarify any details — including what duty or legal status those troops are under, or if eight was even the correct number involved in the secretive case.

“I’m not going to give you details about the investigation to justify the correction,” Bailey said during a phone interview.

He added that facts he thought were true when he released them in early January “turned out to be in fact an error.”

Stripes learned of the case through an anonymous source on Jan. 4 and queried Bailey.


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