TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested 4 individuals affiliated with legal syndicates for trespassing right into a baseball recreation at Tokyo Dome in Bunkyo Ward final 12 months.
The arrests of Nobuo Kusuno, the 62-year-old chief of the Narashino-Ikka, an affiliate group of the Inagawa-kai, and three different gang members will not be unprecedented, studies the Asahi Shimbun (Feb. 9).
According to Tomisaka Police Station, Kusuno and the opposite three suspects are accused of trespassing into Tokyo Dome for a recreation between the Yomiuri Giants and the Hiroshima Carp between 5:10 p.m. and seven:05 p.m. on September 10.
The suspects entered regardless of an indication stating, “Organized crime groups and those affiliated with organized crime are not permitted at this facility.”
Upon their arrests on suspicion of trespassing, Kusuno and one different suspect admitted to the costs. Kusano mentioned, “I definitely went.” Meanwhile, the opposite two suspects denied the allegations.
According to police, the 4 suspects had tickets for season seats on the third base aspect. Before the sport started, Dome officers noticed a tattooed particular person close to the doorway. After confirming the identities of the members of the group with safety cameras, they referred to as police.
After Dome officers raised the problem with the 4 suspected gang members, they left shortly after 7:00 p.m. The season tickets have been bought below the title of an industrial waste assortment and transportation firm in Chiba Prefecture.
Not the primary time
The arrests will not be unprecedented. In 2023, Hyogo Prefectural Police arrested a number of Osaka Prefecture gang members on suspicion of trespassing after they attended a Hanshin Tigers recreation at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo.
Based on the 2003 “Declaration to Exclusion of Organized Crime Groups,” the 12 skilled baseball groups and others have included clauses excluding organized crime of their “game viewing contract terms and conditions.”
The web site of Tokyo Dome City, which operates Tokyo Dome, additionally says that “members of organized crime groups or similar anti-social groups, and those with close ties to them” as individuals who will probably be “denied entry” to baseball video games.