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Two LAPD detectives back to escort Miura
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Posted on Oct 07 2008
Japanese businessman Kazuyoshi Miura has expressed his readiness to continue his legal fight in California as Los Angeles Police Department detectives were expected to arrive on Saipan last night to pick him up at the Department of Corrections in Susupe.
Accompanied by a Japanese interpreter, Bruce Berline, one of Miura’s three lawyers on the island, visited the 61-year-old businessman yesterday afternoon at the Department of Corrections where he has been detained since being arrested at the Saipan airport in February.
After meeting with his client, Berline told dozens of Japanese media outside DOC that LAPD detectives are indeed on their way to get Miura and escort him to California.
“I spoke to him and he is ready to go. And he is ready to continue his fight in California,” the lawyer said.
Berline said they did everything they could do for Miura on Saipan and that now it is time to continue the fight in California.
He said the purpose of his visit was just to give their client advice on what they think is going to happen in California and get him ready for that.
“We just want to make sure he understood that [and] feels comfortable, having the necessary knowledge to handle himself appropriately in California,” the lawyer added.
LAPD Cold Case Homicide Unit’s Detective Rick Jackson and his partner, Detective Richard Bengtson, were reportedly set to arrive last night at the Saipan airport.
Jackson and Bengtson are tasked to bring Miura to California where he is facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the fatal shooting of his wife in 1981. It is not clear yet when they intend to take the businessman.
Jackson and Bengtson, along with two other LAPD officers, came to Saipan last Sept. 15 to pick up Miura but had to leave soon after, empty-handed, after the CNMI Supreme Court granted Miura’s request to stay the extradition order.
Last Sept. 29, Miura withdrew the petition for habeas corpus that he filed in federal court.
