ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — A Coast Guardsman has been sentenced to seven years confinement for a sexual assault that took place on board the icebreaker Polar Star during a port of call in Tahiti.
Seaman Koda M. Harpole also was sentenced Friday at Coast Guard Base Alameda to a dishonorable discharge.
The Polar Star, which has its home port in Seattle, was at Papeete, Tahiti, on Feb. 27, when the Coast Guard says Harpole assaulted the victim as she slept.
He will serve his sentence at the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig in Miramar.
Kenneth Briggs
stupid boy , guess he will cry the blues for a few years . but then he may have to sign up as a sex offender when he get out on the streets