{"id":173053,"date":"2025-09-12T10:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=173053&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2025-09-12T10:12:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:12:37","slug":"jp-dragon-fraud-suspects-moved-to-fukuoka","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/jp-dragon-fraud-suspects-moved-to-fukuoka\/","title":{"rendered":"JP Dragon Fraud Suspects Moved to Fukuoka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Six Japanese men, aged 27 to 45, believed to be members of the fraud group \u201cJP Dragon,\u201d were arrested on September 10 after being deported from the Philippines. They are accused of stealing a cash card from an 89-year-old man in Saitama by posing as police officers. Investigators say the group operated from the Philippines, making scam calls and directing money couriers in Japan, and is linked to the \u201cLuffy\u201d group involved in robberies across Japan. The suspects were transferred to Fukuoka on September 11 for further investigation. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20250911\/5010029864.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_173056\" style=\"width: 1410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-173056\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fn_cashcard-unsplash_2025_cl.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"JP Dragon Fraud Suspects Moved to Fukuoka\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" class=\"size-full wp-image-173056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fn_cashcard-unsplash_2025_cl.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fn_cashcard-unsplash_2025_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fn_cashcard-unsplash_2025_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fn_cashcard-unsplash_2025_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-173056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by rupixen on Unsplash<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay informed with the latest Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu news and events in English. Sign up for our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">free weekly newsletter <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">today and never miss a beat. Opt out anytime, your privacy is our priority. Get the inside scoop with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Summaries based on public content, errors may occur during translation. Images credited independently. Send feedback using <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this <\/span><b>form<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Japanese men, aged 27 to 45, believed to be members of the fraud group \u201cJP Dragon,\u201d were arrested on September 10 after being deported from the Philippines&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":173056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-173053","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/173053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}