Foster civilian pleads guilty to drug charge

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Foster civilian pleads guilty to drug charge
By Chiyomi Sumida, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, March 1, 2008

NAHA, Okinawa — A Japanese prosecutor has recommended an American civilian employee on Camp Foster be imprisoned 18 months for abusing a stimulant.

Christopher S. Dimitriadis, 35, a Marine Corps Community Services employee, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of injecting himself with the drug phenylmethyl aminopropane inside a bathroom of a supermarket in Ginowan’s Aragusuku district Jan. 15.

“The defendant’s needle-scarred arms tell that he is addicted to the stimulant drug,” prosecutor Yukio Nakajima said during the hearing.

He said Dimitriadis was “criminally responsible” for using a drug “which is secretly spreading in the Japanese community.”

The drug is an amphetamine-like concoction usually made by underground chemists.


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uhc comment: Meth goes West.