Updated at 7:05 a.m., Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Hawaii-based sailor declared dead
Advertiser Staff
A sailor assigned to a Pearl Harbor-based ship was declared dead Jan. 4 after apparently going overboard from a destroyer in the Arabian Sea Jan. 3, the Defense Department reported yesterday.Petty Officer Second Class Menelek M. Brown, 24, of Roswell, N.M., was assigned to the USS Hopper, a guided-missile destroyer.
Navy aircraft and ships conducted an extensive search but did not find him.
