4 Japanese arrested for drug trafficking in New Zealand

Saturday 14th November, 06:38 AM JST

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downundercafe at 04:24 PM JST - 14th November

hard drugs will never receive the stroke of the pen. Grass maybe.. Thats in normal countries... But you never know anything can happen in the US.
norinrad21 at 04:26 PM JST - 14th November

Behind bars
5SpeedRacer5 at 05:05 PM JST - 14th November

Studebaker tells a good story that sets up My2sense's account. There is so much more to it, but those are the basics for sure. Personally, I have never ever believed the "drugs only come from abroad" malarkey, and I know that a lot of the high SPEED growth period was fuelled by some serious hopping up.

That is why the age thing jumps out at me. They are old enough to know better. Young enough to put some energy into it. It is full-on disregard for the law that gets me thinking that there must be others. And they were moving six kilograms of the stuff. Bet they find more of this in the coming months.
EKAM1 at 09:33 PM JST - 14th November

studebaker

"From what I've read, the Yakuza hire people to make meth: they usually don't get it made in Japan, due to the constrained spaces and signature meth lab smell. The Philippines used to be the place, but increasingly China is the ideal meth lab locale."

This is an absurd and false guess. Your allegations about China are absurd. China has a 'Kick Ass' policy in relation to Scumbag Low life Drug Traffickers and Drug Users. They will be pounced on with justifiable Brutal force. No sorry ASS excuses pass there. STUDEBAKER you should reveal your own home country and its policy before attacking China.
yourock at 10:43 PM JST - 14th November

it reads as if the four Japanese will be doing time in a Kiwi prison for a number of years. Still better off than the Japanese woman caught in Malaysia. Don't do drugs, or at least stick to the legal ones.
gaijintraveller at 11:57 PM JST - 14th November

Any connection between this and the Japanese arrested in Malaysia a few days ago? These people are lucky they didn't get picked up in Malaysia.
bushlover at 02:42 AM JST - 15th November

[Anyway, these guys are scum, and deserve whatever penalty they get in NZ. They can't fob it off on foreign dealers, either. :)]

Funny how you got them guilty before proven innocent as your type like to say about gaijin in japan being caught are innocent until proven guilty. I think this is called hypocrisy.
paolo27th at 04:22 AM JST - 15th November

Shame they didn`t get caught while in Malaysia.
Hehehohohaha at 07:29 AM JST - 15th November

This is an absurd and false guess. Your allegations about China are absurd.

Me thinks you protest too much. If China had no reputation for corruption, then perhaps I would believe your sainted description of China. But the unfortunate reality is that China has a corruption problem and when drugs are involved China is like every other country on this earth - someone, somewhere will take that bribe and look away.

And don't jump on me. I like China.
Miyaratmosphere at 08:29 AM JST - 15th November

**#

butterfly1 at 08:47 AM JST - 14th November

that makes 5 japanese arrested for trafficking in 1 week...**

hahahaahahahaa Damn Gaijin smuggling drugs in NZ!
Shaolin7 at 11:08 PM JST - 15th November

Shame they didn`t get caught while in Malaysia.

To be perfectly frank, there is plenty of graft and cladestine dealing in Malaysia as well. We'll see what happens to that 35 year old native Japanese caught in M'sia, but I don't put much faith in the justice system, on either side.
Shaolin7 at 11:09 PM JST - 15th November

Sorry, clandestine
akuma1985 at 01:14 PM JST - 16th November

i just can laugh. until now the media spoke only about iranian who s traffics drugs in japan. now it s japanese who are tarficing drug abroad. finally japanese are not better than other they are drug trafficant too.
akuma1985 at 04:00 PM JST - 16th November

Ok as if you write in japanese on JT it s become off topics.

in final its become 5 foreigners criminal.

Maybe it s better for everybody if Malaysia arrested them.
saru_au at 04:28 PM JST - 16th November

with a street value of up to NZ$6 million (U.S.$4.4 million)

so about 5,000yen :P