Naha, Okinawa Pref. – A U.S. Marine indicted for an alleged murder-robbery in Okinawa Prefecture signaled his involvement in the crime during questioning by the prefecture’s police, investigative sources said.

Lance Cpl. Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, had denied his role in the case when he was arrested by the police in early October.

Ballard, who belongs to the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Okinawa city of Ginowan, was indicted on Sunday. The Naha District Public Prosecutors Office in Okinawa has not disclosed whether he admitted the allegations.

According the indictment and other sources, Ballard allegedly strangled a 39-year-old woman with a telephone cord in a hotel room in Naha, the capital of Okinawa, between around 2:10 a.m. and 4:15 a.m. on Oct.…