(Associated Press) A second incident involving alcohol and violence surfaced Thursday in the background of the Army staff sergeant suspected of killing 17 Afghan villagers — a 2008 allegation that he thrust a woman’s hand to his crotch and fought with her boyfriend.
A Pierce County Sheriff’s Department incident report obtained by The Associated Press quoted a woman claiming Robert Bales told her she was beautiful, then “pulled her hand to his crotch” outside a Tacoma, Wash., bowling alley. The deputy described Bales as “extremely intoxicated.”
