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Navy officer who’d been jailed in Japan over deadly crash now released from US custody, family says

WASHINGTONWASHINGTON — A Navy officer who had been jailed in Japan over a car crash that killed two Japanese citizens was released from U.S. custody on Friday, one month after he was returned to the United States and placed in a federal prison, his family said.

Lt. Ridge Alkonis was ordered released by the U.S. Parole Commission, according to the Justice Department and a family statement that descr . . .