15 kg of cocaine seized from single passenger at Haneda

Perhaps the death penalty would be a good way to reduce drug smugglers like in singapore. Hang’em

372 million yen, concealed in 15 candy boxes inside a suitcase in the possession of a 25-year-old Canadian man.

Which season of Narcos is this? Canadian nationality that's bit unusual.

”Cancel Christmas” for the next twenty years.

He will claim he was set up. Very strange for a rich Canadian to do it. I wonder what the final destination was. I don’t think cocaine is famous in Japan. Usually Marijuana is famous in Japan. He must have been changing planes in Japan for another country where cocaine is famous.

The quantity is HUGEEEEEEeeee, definitely decades of jail....btw cocaine is getting more popular.

@Japantime What are you talking about? I know a bar in Tokyo where the manager decided to remove the tops of the toilets because they were always covered in cocaine by the end of the night due to people snorting lines off the enamel while they had the privacy of their own cubicle-and that was 25 years ago!

Cocaine is becoming more popular in Japan for sure .

The 25-year-old Canadian man will spend 25 years or more in prison.

”Cancel Christmas” for the next twenty years.- WA4TKG

Santa's sleigh has intercepted. Notice to all elves, I repeat Santa's sleigh has been intercepted. No snow this Christmas.

Should have flown Emirates. He could have gotten a 30kg allowance.

15 kilos is a big bust but there is still plenty getting into Japan.

The 25-year-old Canadian man will spend 25 years or more in prison.

The maximum penalty for any amount of drugs in Japan is 10 years. You could be caught with a literal cargo ship full of heroin, and the maximum penalty will still be 10 years.

To add on to the above, possession without intent to sell or distribute carries a maximum penalty of 3 years for cannabinoids and psychotropics, and 5 years for stimulants, opiates, and narcotics.

“No intent to sell or distribute” is usually interpreted as less than 15g of marijuana, less than 3 grams of narcotics or opiates, and less than 1.5 grams of stimulants.

If you smuggle stimulants or other narcotics into Japan, you may be imprisoned for life.

https://www.keishicho.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/multilingual/english/safe_society/law_violations/warning.html

Japantime

Today 08:16 am JST

He will claim he was set up. Very strange for a rich Canadian to do it. I wonder what the final destination was. I don’t think cocaine is famous in Japan. Usually Marijuana is famous in Japan. He must have been changing planes in Japan for another country where cocaine is famous

Very strange comment.

I am not sure where you get the idea Canadians are "rich" perhaps you should do a little checking before commenting.

As for cocaine not being "famous" in Japan perhaps not a common as is other countries but it is far far far more profitable according to the stats.

The average world street value for a gram is $120.

This is also the average price in the USA while in Canada according to the government it is $85 (everything is in USD ).

In Japan the average street price is $185 USD only places higher are a few Arab countries and Australia/NZ at around $260 per gram.

So as a destination for cocaine Japan is a prime high profit location without the death penalty and without the longer flight and higher cost for Australia.

Taking into account all the above factors it is highly probable Japan is the final destination.

Now please people, I do not have any personal knowledge of use or prices etc.... the above is strictly from information off of USA, UK, Canada, Australia etc .. government websites and Statista, etc... so if you know more or better information, fine, let us know.

15 kg of cocaine shows narcotic drug smuggling with an intent to supply.

Canadian by passport, ethnically, who knows? Time will tell.

Yeah, he’s finished. You smuggle drugs, you deserve nothing less but life.

A Japanese man has been sentenced to 13 years in prison and fined about $35,000 for leading a ring that smuggled illegal narcotics into Japan through the U.S. military postal system on Okinawa.

He was charged with violating Japan’s Narcotics Control Law, the Cannabis Control Act, the Stimulant Control Law and the Customs Act.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2022-10-04/okinawa-drug-smuggling-ring-military-7569308.html

It is interesting, at aro6the same time 2023/24 and 2018 (possibly other years) other Canadians were caught doing the same thing.

I wonder if these are all connected all were late December or early/mid January

Customs officers found the cocaine, with an estimated street value of 372 million yen, concealed in 15 candy boxes inside a suitcase in the possession of a 25-year-old Canadian man.

He gambled big and lost. At least he should be glad this was Tokyo and not Singapore.

リッチ Today  07:36 am JST

Perhaps the death penalty would be a good way to reduce drug smugglers like in Singapore.

I agree. Capital punishment for big-time dealers and smugglers.

They sell poison that kills people and destroys lives.

They're no different than murderers. In fact, in a very real way, they are murderers.

I would suspect as usual that due to his age he was probably manipulated and forced to carry such qty. to such destination, I would first question this mans state of mind and make sue that is not mentally incompetent!! then his contacts in Japan. this is not a one man operation.

We need the death penalty for drug smuggling. Just like singapore. Problem solved. Hangem

Japantime

He must have been changing planes in Japan for another country where cocaine is famous.

Then he and his luggage wouldn't have gone through customs and the cocaine wouldn't have been discovered in "a routine customs inspection".

What kind of idiot doesn't expect customs to be suspicious of 15 KILOGRAMS of candy? Stupid is as stupid does.

@Rich

Capital punishment has been proved not effective in eliminating crime. It’s not just “we punish drug smuggling with death”, “problem solved”, “no one will ever attempt to smuggle drugs in to this country”.

There are still murders committed in countries with the death penalty as punishment for murder, for example.

1/ Cops could have followed the perp and see who his REAL connection was.

2/Possibly other passengers on the plane also carrying coke and this guy was the set up.

But yeah, hard to say personal use unless you were Richard Pryor.

The guy's only hope is to sing about who it belongs to.

concealed in 15 candy boxes

I doubt you need spider sense to become suspicious of someone with 15 1kg boxes of candy.

There are still murders committed in countries with the death penalty as punishment for murder, for example.

But they never reoffend.

BeerDeliveryGuy- it’s so nice to see people adding value to a debate by employing facts. You don’t see that much these days

These drug mules sure aint the brains trust of their home countries. First the Aboriginal woman from Australia who a few people here were supporting because she's Aboriginal and shouldn't face any real consequences because of that and now a Canadian.

Looks like these two should be given some elementary school classes in prison.

Yup, they don’t care what color you are in Japan, you still swing the same.

No, death penalty is a bit too harsh as they do not kill others directly. My recommendation would be to let those heavy criminal dealers have to consume the found amount at once. So they have a small theoretical chance to survive, depending on how much they wanted to consume themselves or distribute on illegal market.

Should have hid it in his toque eh.

Why do they still try to smuggle large amounts of coke (or any other drug) with luggage they personally carry?

For 30kg, wouldn't it be safer to send it in a package encased in a few other things and have it shipped by container ship where they only check a certain number of packages? They can only inspect a very small percentage so the liklihood of the contraband getting through would be higher and less of a risk. No mule necessary either.

Capital punishment has been proved not effective in eliminating crime. It’s not just “we punish drug smuggling with death”, “problem solved”, “no one will ever attempt to smuggle drugs in to this country”.

There are still murders committed in countries with the death penalty as punishment for murder, for example.

Weak argument against capital punishment.

Have life imprisonment, or prison sentences of a given number of years, proved effective in eliminating drug dealing or other crimes?

Answer: a hard no. They haven't.

But that doesn't mean we abolish those penalties.

There are still murders committed in countries with life imprisonment as punishment for murder. Does that mean we should eliminate life imprisonment?

Cook County in Illinois, and Los Angeles County in California, lead the U.S. in murders every year. Capital punishment does not exist in those two states. Their maximum penalty for murder is, presumably, life imprisonment.

Under your logic, then, we can say that life imprisonment has not proved effective in eliminating homicide in those two locales.

And under your logic, that penalty should be abolished -- in favor of a more lenient one.

"Capital punishment has been proved not effective in eliminating crime" -- we can say the same thing about every other punishment for every crime. Bar none.

So why do we expect perfect deterrence results from capital punishment -- but not from any other forms of criminal punishment?

Executing a drug dealer will, at the very least, eliminate the possibility of that particular drug dealer ever poisoning people with his or her "product" again.

And if it deters even one person out there from entering into this "business," thereby saving an untold number of lives from getting addicted to their deadly "products," then it's worth it.

He will be getting a one way ticket to the big house in Ibaraki. Members of my church go there weekly to meet with the foreign inmates incarcerated there to help them however possible.

The average life expectancy in Singapore in 2023 (which has extremely harsh drug laws) was 82 years old.

The average life expectancy in Portugal in 2023 (where all illegal drugs have been decriminalized for personal use) was 82.65 years

Europeans used to execute women for being witches-turned out that was a bit silly. Executing drug smugglers? Would you execute the people who disregarded prohibition in America and smuggled/manufactured alcohol during those times?

Rich canadian man? so many ethnicities there, p/p is available relatively easy even for persons committing crimes in other nations. 15kg, was canada just a transit, well done done jpn customs! methinks they are now finally making intl. agreements to jointly track and trace. mmh15kg in a suitcase. When will they equip with scanners for the container shipments, before it's too late USD29mill. well spent

I know nothing about any drug problem in Japan. Is that because there isn't one, or because it isn't reported on?

As for the case mentioned in the above article, who wrapped the cocaine in the candy boxes? If it can be shown that it was the male passenger from Canada, then he will have a pretty hard time arguing his innocence. If he was just delivering it for someone else, unknowingly, then he has to be one of the most gullible tourists in the world.

In Australia two soldiers returned from the war and the first thing they did was go to the Pharmacist to purchase over the counter Cocain year 1919. It was not a problem then, So why was it made illegal ??? One reason only so the offspring of the legal drug barons like your Captain Perry's of the USA could make even bigger profits.,

@Deo Grotius,

Do you really think the drug dealing kingpin is the one sitting on the plane, attempting to smuggle 15kgs of product in to another country?

The death penalty would be handed out to the mule gullible enough to do it. Or possibly intimidated in to doing it to settle a debt or suchlike.