3 gang members nabbed for importing 120 kg of illegal drugs

Thursday 01st October, 04:07 AM JST

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unrested at 08:39 AM JST - 1st October

keystone cops hahahaha....well said jbizzle
knackerz at 09:18 AM JST - 1st October

I was just about to praise the cops for finally getting their act together, oh well...
bgaudry at 10:46 AM JST - 1st October

At last, all that info the keystones squeezed out of Sakai is leading to some major busts. Hahaha,
Gaijinocchio at 11:23 AM JST - 1st October

117.6 kg out on the streets and unaccounted for. Wonder which celebrity will be caught next?
Osakadaz at 01:04 PM JST - 1st October

Disillusioned> yep! No surprises there. It seems that the Inagawa Kai are definitely edging out the Yamaken in the drugs racket,and it is said that they are heavily involved in the 'roppongi hills clique' and what has been going on down there.You watch this space...there is a big gang war coming up again for sure between the Yamaguchi Gumi and the Inagawa Kai and it won't be pleasant.
Yelnats at 03:55 PM JST - 1st October

120 minus 2.4 They almost had it all sold. That was probably the private stash skimmed off the top.
PepinGalarga at 04:38 PM JST - 1st October

This doesnt add up. Does the story mean that they confiscated the 120 PLUS the 2.4 later when they searched the houses?

If they only got 2.4 out of the 120 then they are a bunch of incompetents!!
Wakarimasen at 05:26 PM JST - 1st October

Someone confessed, otherwise story makes no sense.
dolphingirl at 06:42 PM JST - 1st October

Wow! A 'real' drug bust. Well, if you only read the headline it sounds good. Does the 2.4 kg include the personal computers and mobile phones?!
usaexpat at 11:00 PM JST - 1st October

Wow 120 keys, now that's a bust. Can we spring Nori-P now since you boys have met your quota.
Shaolin7 at 12:07 AM JST - 2nd October

Unbelievable. And I agree with Wakarimasen, this is clearly not a case of proactive police work -- someone was pinched (perhaps on the "right" side of the law as intimated by both Disillusioned and Wakarimasen) and subsequently confessed. Osakadaz, you always seem to shed some interesting light on the seamy undercurrents to these drug stories. Thanks fellas!
Anpanman_NZ at 01:46 AM JST - 2nd October

I remember the news story from a while back (almost a year I think), the 120kg of stimulants were found by the Japan Coast Guard and 9 people were arrested, so obviously these raids/arrests just follow on from that case.

here is a link to an article, as the original story is no longer available on JapanToday. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090209a3.html
Klein2 at 08:21 AM JST - 2nd October

I propose that the unit of law enforcement reporting of drugs be changed. Why kilograms? That is a wholesale unit used by international traffickers. Who cares? It should be in parenthesis. Also, 2 kg of heroin is not the same as 2 kg of mary jane.

Why dollars or currency units? We all know that number gets inflated by someone's assessment of retail prices. Then the police inflate that more. Then the economists inflate it more.

Someone should get a panel of doctors to determine the minimum dose necessary to get one person really buzzed or high, and then they should use that. That unit would mean a lot more to society and general readers. It would also enable someone to evaluate the drug in terms of local street value rather than Compton street value or Miami night club street value.
gogogo at 06:17 PM JST - 2nd October

99% of drugs in Japan are from the yakuza, stop blaming the foreigners.
PepinGalarga at 08:33 PM JST - 2nd October

klein, this is the same as the concept of Purchasing Power Parity, but here we could call it Dazed and Confused Parity.