WASHINGTON - The former Army private charged with raping an Iraqi woman and killing her family will all but certainly be tried in the federal court system, not through a military court martial, a senior Army official said Thursday.
Steven D. Green, who was arrested Friday by FBI agents in Marion, N.C., has received his final discharge papers from the Army and therefore it appears he no longer has any ties to the military, said the official, who requested anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Green is being held in Charlotte without bond pending an arraignment hearing Monday. He was to be transported Thursday from North Carolina, where he was arrested, to Louisville, Ky., according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Marisa Ford, chief of the criminal division for the Western District of Kentucky.
Army officials had been checking Green’s status to determine whether he had received his final pay and whether he was eligible for re-enlistment as a limited reservist. The Army official said Green received his final discharge papers and would be considered “no longer a soldier.”
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