Naha, Okinawa Pref. – Public prosecutors in Okinawa Prefecture indicted U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, on robbery and murder charges on Sunday after a 39-year-old woman was found dead in the prefecture earlier this month.

According to the indictment and other sources, Ballard allegedly strangled the woman with a telephone cord in a hotel room in Naha, approximately between 2:10 a.m. and 4:15 a.m. on Oct. 3 and took a backpack containing her wallet and other belongings.

The Naha District Public Prosecutors Office has not disclosed whether Ballard, who is stationed at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the city of Ginowan, has admitted to the charges.

Investigative sources said that the woman checked in with a man at the hotel around 2:10 a.m. that day but she did not leave by checkout time.…