HOKKAIDO (TR) – Hokkaido Prefectural Police have re-arrested two males for cultivating marijuana for revenue after uncovering the biggest indoor hashish farming operation within the prefecture’s historical past, stories HBC News (Aug. 11).
Unemployed Sapporo resident Renma Nakagawa, 30, and his acquaintance, Yusuke Sato, 30, had been served contemporary arrest warrants on August 11, police introduced. The pair had initially been caught and arrested on July 21 for possession of marijuana.
The arrests comply with a large raid on a Sapporo City warehouse that had beforehand been used as a meals manufacturing plant however sat deserted for roughly a decade.
Inside the ability, investigators found a extremely refined develop operation. Police seized 1,083 hashish vegetation with an estimated avenue worth of 100 million yen, together with 330 grams of dried marijuana valued at roughly 1.65 million yen. Authorities famous that this marks the biggest hashish seizure ever constituted of a single constructing in Hokkaido.
Grow lights, liquid fertilizer, and potting soil had been additionally confiscated from the scene.
According to police, investigators first obtained a tip-off in June 2025 that marijuana was being cultivated on the web site. Authorities spent roughly a yr conducting undercover surveillance earlier than lastly raiding the warehouse final month.
Police have declined to disclose whether or not Nakagawa and Sato have admitted to the costs, citing the continuing investigation.
Detectives at the moment are working to uncover the complete scope of the operation, together with tracing the pair’s gross sales routes and investigating potential accomplices or hyperlinks to organized crime syndicates.