NCIS is investigating the death of a Marine’s family member at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. (Aidan Hekker/U.S. Marine Corps)
FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — Agents with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service are investigating the death on Sunday of a Marine’s family member at Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
Investigators have not released the names of the two individuals.
“Out of respect for the investigative process, NCIS will not comment further while the investigation remains ongoing,” Darwin Lam, a spokesman for NCIS, said in an email Friday.
“No charges have been filed at this time,” Lam said.
The base is located on the windward side of Oahu on Kaneohe Bay.
Hawaii News Now reported earlier this week that the deceased was the wife of a Marine and that he is being held on Ford Island, which is adjacent to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. The Honolulu Medical Examiner Office said on Friday that no information was available about the death.
The Honolulu Police Department is not involved in the investigation, HPD spokeswoman Michelle Yu said in an email Friday.
A Marine Corps sergeant who had also been stationed at Marine Corps Base Hawaii remains in a Honolulu jail two years after being charged with killing his wife on July 20, 2022.
Authorities say that Sgt. Bryant Tejeda-Castillo repeatedly stabbed Dana Alotaibi while on the side of a road near the base.
Tejeda-Castillo has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder. He is being held on a $1 million bond, and a trial date is set for June.
Meanwhile, Pfc. Dewayne Arthur Johnson II, a soldier stationed at Schofield Barracks in central Oahu, is being held in the brig at Ford Island and was charged late last month for making false statements, obstructing justice and distributing child pornography in connection with his missing wife, Mischa Johnson.
Mischa Johnson, 19, who was six months pregnant when she disappeared in late July, has not been found.
Agents with the Army Criminal Investigation Division have told the family of the missing woman that they believe she was killed.
