Posted 12/19/2023, 1:33:00 AM
Wife Calls for Husband's Release Before Christmas After Japan Prison Transfer
- Lt. Ridge Alkonis was sentenced to 3 years in a Japanese prison for negligent driving resulting in two deaths, recently transferred to a US federal prison
- His wife Brittany is calling on President Biden and the DOJ to support releasing him so he can be home for Christmas
- Alkonis claims he lost consciousness while driving due to acute mountain sickness from Mount Fuji
- He was brought back to the US under a prisoner transfer convention, will go before the parole commission to determine further confinement
- Brittany says while expected her husband would first go to prison in the US, she's shocked he remains there and could be for months