NAHA – Okinawa Prefectural Police and other authorities apprehended 12 people including three members and a civilian employee of the U.S. Marines in
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- Okinawa Prefectural Police headquarters (Mainichi/Takayasu Endo)NAHA – Okinawa Prefectural Police and other authorities apprehended 12 people including three members and a civilian employee of the U.S. Marines in Okinawa on suspicion of smuggling cannabis and cocaine into Japan from the United States through military postal services that delivered items to U.S. bases, it has been learned.
- On Dec. 22, Okinawa Prefectural Police announced there had been arrests between June and December 2021 of 10 people including Satoshi Kominami, 29, an unemployed man of no fixed address, in a joint investigation with Okinawa Regional Customs and the U.S.
- They are accused of violating Japan’s Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Law and Cannabis Control Law through importing with intent to sell.
- The arrested people included a 29-year-old male civilian employee of the U.S. Marines stationed in Okinawa, and a 24-year-old male member.
- According to the indictment, they used the military postal service in April to import about 156 grams of marijuana plant parts into the Makiminato Service Area from the United States.