2 Drum soldiers fatally stabbed

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2 Drum soldiers fatally stabbed
The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Dec 2, 2009 17:13:46 EST

EVANS MILLS, N.Y. — A Fort Drum soldier was arrested in Ohio early Wednesday on a warrant charging him in the stabbing deaths of two fellow servicemen at an apartment near the military post in northern New York.

The bodies of Waide James, 20, and Diego Valbuena, 23, each with multiple fatal stab wounds, were found Tuesday morning in an apartment complex housing mostly military families in Evans Mills near the post’s main entrance. Fort Drum is the 10th Mountain Division’s home base.

A warrant was issued charging Joshua Hunter, 20, with two counts of second-degree murder, county prosecutor Cindy Intschert said at a news conference. Police say he was arrested early Wednesday at an undisclosed location in northeast Ohio and is awaiting extradition proceedings.

“The impression we have right now is there’s only one suspect,” Tim Dowe, the Jefferson County undersheriff, said in a telephone interview.

Dowe declined to provide a motive or say whether a murder weapon was recovered. Autopsies were scheduled Wednesday.


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