KANAGAWA (TR) – Kanagawa Prefectural Police have arrested three individuals suspected within the smuggling of greater than 500 kilograms of methamphetamine by way of the Port of Yokohama earlier this 12 months, studies the Asahi Shimbun (July 31).
On Tuesday, Kanagawa police accused Tatsuo Uchiyama, 40, a restaurant proprietor in Wakaba Ward, Chiba City, of smuggling 531 kg of kakuseizai, or methamphetamine, from Mexico to the Port of Yokohama in February.
With a avenue worth of roughly 35 billion yen, the seizure is the biggest for methamphetamine within the prefecture since 1981 and the sixth largest on document in Japan.
Kanagawa police are investigating whether or not the crime concerned the Inagawa-kai felony syndicate and an abroad drug ring.
The different suspects are Juan Reyes Chavez, a 49-year-old Mexican sports activities teacher, and skipjack Andres Felipe Gonzalez Salazar, a 28-year-old nationwide of Colombia.
Police didn’t reveal whether or not the suspects admitted to violating the Stimulants Control Law relating to smuggling.
From Mexico
On February 28, a cargo ship arrived on the Port of Yokohama. It had departed Mexico on February 9.
Yokohama Customs examined cargo on the ship that was labelled “palm oil” with a big X-ray machine and located 106 baggage crammed with white methamphetamine.
On May 12, the aforementioned three suspects have been amongst 5 arrested for possession of methamphetamine underneath the identical legislation after they got here to gather the contents of the container.