Federal authorities have released new information about a local veteran who allegedly raped and threatened to kill a woman while he was stationed in Japan 15 years ago.
“Federal agents arrested a Louisiana man and former member of the United States Navy stationed in Japan, relating to a 2004 sexual assault,” according to a news release from United States Attorney’s Office Public Information Officer Shane M. Jones.
It comes amid increased efforts to prosecute sexual assault crimes in the US Armed Forces.
The news release alleges that Murray was identified after the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office entered the veterans DNA into a database after an unrelated investigation. NCIS then got a match to the sample taken from the victim in the 2004 rape case.
“The investigation was conducted by the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service.”
Authorities have not identified the victim publicly.