U.S. sailor in custody in Japan

TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- A U.S. sailor sought for information about a taxi driver's killing near a Navy base has been taken into custody and charged with desertion, according to the U.S. Navy.

He has not been named as a suspect in the death of a 61-year-old taxi driver found on Wednesday with stab wounds to the neck a mile from the U.S. Navy base at Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, the Navy said. full story