Woman's sentence suspended in attempt to set captain on fire

(EXCERPT) , By Hiroshi Chida, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition,
Sunday, August 17, 2003

HACHIOJI, Japan — A Tokyo District Court judge handed Kimiko
Kishiguchi a suspended two-year prison sentence Friday for attempting
to set a former Yokota Air Base captain on fire last year.

Judge Takeshi Kimura found Kishiguchi — a 27-year-old men’s club
hostess — guilty of dousing Capt. Samuel A. Pupich, who is now
assigned to a U.S. base, with a gasoline-kerosene mixture outside
Fussa train station June 25, 2002.

According to police reports, Kishiguchi and Nanae In, a 33-year-old
South Korean woman whom Pupich had met at a Tokyo bar, were at the
station, where Pupich was to pick up In. When In opened the door to
Pupich’s car, Kishiguchi doused the ca...

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