NATO soldier arrested in Lithuania over alleged drunk mugging

NATO has made the embarrassing admission that one of their soldiers serving in Lithuania is at the center of an investigation into the drunk mugging of a local last weekend.

The incident occurred on Sunday at around 4am, with a resident reportedly being robbed by five men who swiftly made off with a cool €1,000 (US$1,130) and two cell phones.

According to local media, a spokesperson from the Lithuanian Army’s Strategic Communication Department admitted that one of the suspects in the incident was a Norwegian soldier on active duty in NATO’s international battalion.

Upon arrest, a blood alcohol test indicated the suspect, aged in his mid-20s, was highly intoxicated. After being interrogated, he was released to continue his regular duties. Local police are still looking into the incident.

NATO personnel seem to have a habit of keeping police busy in the Baltics. Just last month, two US soldiers in Latvia were arrested and fined $400 for disrespectfully relieving themselves on the Freedom Monument which honors soldiers killed in the Latvian war of independence.

Last summer, American soldiers got into a brawl with some Azeris at a Lithuanian bar. It was an American serviceman that ended up on the losing end of the quarrel, taking a punch that landed him in the hospital.

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