Former Northern California Department of Defense employee sentenced for assaulting serviceman in Korea

A former Department of Defense civilian employee was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Sacramento to one year and eight months in prison for assaulting a U.S. military member in July 2020, a U.S. attorney and others said.

According to court documents, Gerald Leon Ray III, 27, of Lathrop, in the Central Valley, intentionally struck the victim in the face near Osan Air Base, a U.S. military installation in the Republic of Korea.

In a press statement, U.S. attorney Phillip A. Talbert...