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US Airman Gets 5-Year Sentence, UK Police Review Cases

7/28/2026

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James Loubeau, a U.S. Airman, was convicted in Miami of sexual assault on an English base and sentenced to five years in prison with twenty-year supervision.
Suffolk police transferred two August 2019 rape complaints to the U.S. Air Force within two weeks and opened a review of that decision.
Cambridgeshire police declined to charge a woman who reported an April 2019 assault by Loubeau, citing insufficient evidence.

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Story summary

James Loubeau, a U.S. Airman, was convicted in Miami of sexual assault on an English base and sentenced to five years in prison with twenty-year supervision.
Suffolk police transferred two August 2019 rape complaints to the U.S. Air Force within two weeks and opened a review of that decision.
Cambridgeshire police declined to charge a woman who reported an April 2019 assault by Loubeau, citing insufficient evidence.