Suffolk police cede investigation into airman to US military
A US airman, James Loubeau, faced allegations from up to six women in East Anglia during 2019 after several claimed he drugged or attacked sleeping or intoxicated women. Suffolk police opened an inquiry after two British women reported rapes but transferred investigative primacy to US air force police 11 days later. Loubeau was acquitted at a 2020 court martial, dismissed from the air force, and later convicted in a US prosecution after an FBI DNA breakthrough and sentenced to prison with long post‑release supervision. The transfer decision is now under review and has prompted wider scrutiny of jurisdictional practice.
Suffolk police transferred the 2019 investigation to US military within 11 days
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Local police transferred the case to US air force investigators shortly after reports in 2019. The decision is now under review and may prompt questions about future case transfers.
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