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Japan Today
25-05-2025
- Japan Today
Suspect who fled police station after officer dozed off recaptured
A 32-year-old man who had been arrested on suspicion of violating the Stimulants Control Act temporarily escaped from a police station after a police officer dozed off, in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, police said Sunday. The man, Kohei Takai, was caught after he got about 200 meters from Kawasaki Police Station at around 9:35 a.m. on Saturday, TV Asahi reported. He had turned himself in at a koban (police box) at 4:30 a.m. Saturday, confessing that he had been using stimulants. According to police, Takai was taken to Kawasaki Police Station where an officer questioned him in an interrogation room. While waiting to be transferred to a cell, he fled the station when the police officer supervising him in the interrogation room dozed off. Another police officer saw Takai and immediately gave chase and apprehended him. Kawasaki Police Station Deputy Chief Yoshinari Hagamine said, "We will work to prevent a recurrence of such an incident.' © Japan Today
Tokyo Reported
25-05-2025
- Tokyo Reported
Suspect flees Kawasaki Police Station after officer dozes off
KANAGAWSA (TR) – A man who in custody for violating the Stimulants Control Act temporarily escaped from a police station in Kawasaki City on Saturday after a police officer dozed off, reports TV Asahi (May 25). At around 4:30 a.m., suspect Kohei Takai, 32, turned himself in to a police box in Kawasaki City. 'I used kakuseizai yesterday,' he said in referring to methamphetamine. Police then arrested him over the alleged possession of a bag of methamphetamine. After being interrogated at the Kawasaki Police Station, he fled the premises after the police officer supervising him in the interrogation room dozed off. Another officer who noticed immediately gave chase, secured him on the street about 200 meters away and arrested him on suspicion of attempted escape. Takai is said to have admitted to the charges during interrogation. A representative of the Kawasaki Police Station commented, 'We will confirm the facts and work to prevent a recurrence.'
Japan Times
13-02-2025
- Japan Times
Osaka police arrest three for online sales of counterfeit eyelash serum
The Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested three people on suspicion of selling counterfeit eyelash serum, in violation of a law on ensuring the quality and safety of pharmaceutical and medical products. Issei Kawahara, 35, head of an Osaka-based real estate firm, and Keigo Takai, 24, a board member of the company, and another suspect were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of selling six counterfeit products of Mizuhashi Hojudo Pharmaceutical's eyelash serum, Emaked, on an online store last April to a woman in the city of Osaka. The suspects allegedly received ¥24,000 from the sale. As the products were shipped from China, police believe there is a bigger party involved in making and selling counterfeit products. 'There's a Japanese company and a Chinese company operating the sales,' Takai said in an interview with Jiji Press before being arrested. Takai said he first got involved in the scheme when Kawahara asked if there was anyone who wanted to sell goods on the side and that he could introduce an acquaintance if anyone was interested. According to the Osaka police, Kawahara is seen as having been in charge of trying to recruit someone to set up the online store that would sell the counterfeit goods. Kawahara declined to be interviewed, saying: 'There is no merit in talking.' Last month, Osaka police also arrested two men who were taking part in a scheme to sell knockoffs of Shiseido's liquid foundation. In that case, the fake products had been sent from Hong Kong. Police are looking into whether the cases are connected. Translated by The Japan Times
