South Koreans probe alleged GI drug use

South Koreans probe alleged GI drug use
By Hwang Hae-rym and T.D. Flack, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Friday, December 19, 2008

SEOUL — South Korean police said Wednesday that they plan to question two U.S. soldiers accused of using illegal drugs in an off-post apartment.

A Wonju police spokesman, speaking on the customary condition of anonymity, said an arrest warrant had been issued for one of two South Koreans accused of using ketamine — an animal tranquilizer — with the soldiers.

The spokesman said the man, identified only as Cho, allegedly inhaled the ketamine with the Camp Long-based soldiers and a 24-year-old South Korean woman on Dec. 4 and that the alleged drug use went back to September.

The spokesman said a urine sample from Cho, 28, tested positive for the drug and that he admitted to using it with the three suspects. Cho stated that he didn’t know the source of the ketamine, the spokesman said.

Police intend to question the woman later this week, the spokesman said.


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