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Airman convicted of cocaine use

  • Published
  • By Staff Sgt. Robert Mauro
  • 15th Wing Legal Office military justice paralegal
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR HICKAM, Hawaii --  Senior Airman Kenny Kimizuka, 735th Air Mobility Squadron, was tried before a panel of officer members in a Special Court-Martial May 20 in the Woodring Law Center courtroom at Hickam.

He was charged with one specification under Article 112a, Uniform Code of Military Justice, of wrongful use of cocaine. Airman Kimizuka pled guilty to the charge and specification.

Airman Kimizuka, like several other airmen this year, "popped" positive on a urinalysis test for using drugs. It is common knowledge that this drug is all over the island, but that does not make it right or legal to use it.

For his crime, Airman Kimizuka was sentenced to a bad conduct discharge, six months confinement, forfeiture of two-thirds pay per month for six months and reduction to the grade of E-1 (Airman Basic). His actions affected his family, he no longer has a career in the Air Force, and he will have the permanent stigma of a bad conduct discharge because of the wrong choices he has made.

The UCMJ provides for one of the most fair justice systems in existence. We all know crime does not pay, and now Airman Kimizuka is living proof. Special Courts-Martial convictions are often equated to felony convictions in the civilian community.

For more information on military courts-martial or courts-martial procedures, visit the legal office's website at www.hickam.af.mil/ja, or contact the Military Justice Section at 448-0992.