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This Navy officer and Latter-day Saint is now in a Japanese prison

Derek and Suzi Alkonis pose with a photo of their son, Lt. Ridge Alkonis, on June 1, in Dana Point, Calif. Their son, a U.S. Navy lieutenant who was stationed in Japan, is now serving a three-year prison sentence there for a car crash that killed two people. His family and the Navy say he passed out unconscious behind the wheel. Japanese prosecutors and a judge say he was feeling drowsy and should have pulled over.

Derek and Suzi Alkonis pose with a photo of their son, Lt. Ridge Alkonis, on June 1, in Dana Point, Calif. Their son, a U.S. Navy lieutenant who was stationed in Japan, is now serving a three-year prison sentence there for a car crash that killed two people. His family and the Navy say he passed out unconscious behind the wheel. Japanese prosecutors and a judge say he was feeling drowsy and should have pulled over. (Denis Poroy, Associated Press)


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Brittany Alkonis, her three young children and two of their grandparents did the unimaginable Thursday, leaving Japan without their husband, father and son, Navy Lt. Ridge Alkonis, after he began what they believe is an unjustifiable three-year sentence in a foreign prison.

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