Army Specialist Michael Wagnon
Laura L. Myers of Reuters news agency reported that the U.S. Army has dismissed all charges against the last of five soldiers to face a court-martial in the slaying of unarmed Afghan civilians, officials from their home base near Tacoma, Washington, said on Friday.
Army Specialist Michael Wagnon had been charged with premediated murder in the death of a villager in Afghanistan during a tour of duty in February 2010.
"As of right now, he's pretty much a free man," said Lieutenant Colonel Gary Dangerfield, a spokesman for Joint Base Lewis-McChord. "He is still in the Army but a free man."
Wagnon, 31, was released from military detention and placed under home confinement in April.
Dangerfield would not say why the charges were dropped, and a statement from the base said only that the move was "in the interest of justice."
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