U.S. Women Arrested over Smuggling of $1 Million Worth of Cannabis Into Japan
One suspect said she joined for a free trip to Japan as police alleged the pair conspired with an unknown third party to smuggle 30 kg.
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‘I could go to Japan for free’, says US woman caught with smuggled cannabis
Tokyo police arrested two American women for allegedly smuggling US$1 million worth of cannabis, with one suspect claiming she was motivated by a free trip to Japan, an official and media reports said on Friday. The pair, both 25, arrived at Tokyo’s Haneda airport from New York last Saturday with two suitcases in which “cannabis-like dried plants were secretly stored”, a police spokesman said. Japan has some of the world’s strictest drug laws an…
Tokyo police arrested two American women for smuggling approximately 30 kilograms of dried marijuana worth around 150 million yen. One of the suspects confessed, claiming she took the job because she got paid and was happy that someone paid for her trip to Japan for free.
Free trip to Japan lands two US women in trouble over alleged US$1m cannabis haul
TOKYO, Sept 11 — Tokyo police arrested two American women for allegedly smuggling US$1 million worth of cannabis, with one suspect claiming she was motivated by a free trip to...
TOKYO - Police in Tokyo have arrested two American women for allegedly smuggling $1 million worth of cannabis, with one of the women said to have been motivated by a free trip to Japan, Japanese media reported, AFP reported.
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