Murder Suspect Miura Jailed in Los Angeles

What:      
Arrival of 61-year-old murder suspect Kazuyoshi Miura and subsequent news conference  

When:     
October 10, 2008
News conference – Parker Center Auditorium
150 North Los Angeles Street
Los Angeles, CA  90012

Time of news conference to be determined following  completion of the booking of the murder suspect.   Media will be notified of news conference time through City News Service (CNS).

Where:    
Los Angeles International Airport
Please contact Nancy Castles at LAWA, for media coverage information regarding the    arrival of Miura at LAX

Nancy Suey Castles
Public Relations Director
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
Los Angeles World Airports
One World Way — Room 109
Los Angeles, CA  90045
Phone:  310-646-5260
Fax:  310-646-1894
e-mail:  ncastles@lawa.org

Following Miura’s arrival at LAX, he will be transported to LAPD Police Headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles where he will be formally booked.

NOTE:  There will be absolutely no media parking on Judge John Aiso Street from 2:00 a.m., until the street is re-opened to traffic.  Media vehicles stopping or parking on Judge John Aiso Street will be subject to tow and impound.

Media Parking (Staging area)
Location 1: on 1st Street between Judge John Aiso and Los Angeles Street
Location 2: on Los Angeles Street between Temple and 1st Street

Who:        
Robbery Homicide Detectives

Why:        
After numerous legal and procedural delays, Los Angeles police detectives have received extradition authority.  Investigators from   Robbery Homicide Division traveled to Saipan during the week of October 5, 2008 and accepted Kazuyoshi Miura into custody based on an arrest warrant and extradition authority.  
                 
Detectives and Miura will land at Los Angeles International Airport on October 10, 2008.  Miura will be transported to Parker Center and booked for the murder of his wife.  

Kazumi Miura, who was 28 years old at the time, was shot on November 18, 1981. She was at a location in the 200 block of Fremont Avenue, in downtown Los Angeles. She died over a year later in Japan on November 30, 1982.

Miura was convicted in Japan in 1994 of the murder of his wife, but the verdict was overturned by the country’s high courts.

Miura was arrested at Saipan’s airport on February 22, 2008 on a warrant, charging him with the murder of his wife, and conspiracy.

Miura’s was taken into police custody on the Island of Saipan, located in the northern Marianas Islands, a commonwealth territory of the United States. Detectives with the LAPD’s Cold Case Homicide Unit had been closely working with authorities in Guam and Saipan, believing that Miura would be visiting the island from his residence in Japan.