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Iraq vet charged with murder in Fort Drum killings
A Fort Drum military policeman accused of stabbing his two Army buddies to death has been arraigned on second-degree murder charges.
A not guilty plea was entered on behalf of 20-year-old Spc. Joshua Hunter Friday morning in Jefferson County Court in Watertown.
Authorities say he killed 20-year-old Waide James and 23-year-old Diego Valbuena, both of Florida, inside their apartment just outside Fort Drum. Their bodies were found Tuesday.
All three had served in Iraq and shared the apartment in Evans Mills near the main gate to the Army post that's home of the 10th Mountain Division.
Hunter, who was raised in West Virginia, was arrested early Wednesday in southern Ohio and returned by police to Jefferson County Thursday night.