Travis Lamont Murray, Aggravated Sexual Abuse, Louisiana 2024

A former US Navy serviceman has been charged with aggravated sexual abuse in a 2004 incident that occurred while he was stationed in Japan.

Travis Lamont Murray, 36, from Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, has been accused of one count of aggravated sexual abuse and one count of sexual abuse.

The alleged assault took place in the late evening hours of May 25, 2004, and the early morning hours of May 26, 2004, in Yokosuka City, Japan.

Murray was identified as the assailant after a DNA sample of his was submitted to the FBI's Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office during an unrelated investigation in 2018.

A federal grand jury in New Orleans returned a two-count indictment against Murray, who made his initial court appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Dana M. Douglas for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

The investigation was conducted by the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and the prosecution is being handled by Senior Trial Attorney Frank Rangoussis of the Criminal Division's Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathryn McHugh of the Eastern District of Louisiana.

All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/former-military-serviceman-charged-aggravated-sexual-abuse