{"id":82091,"date":"2013-02-22T18:02:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T09:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33595"},"modified":"2016-04-01T03:00:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:00:10","slug":"head-shop-owner-from-hakata-busted","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/head-shop-owner-from-hakata-busted\/","title":{"rendered":"Head Shop Owner from Hakata Busted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On. Feb 20 the Aichi Prefectural Police Drug and Firearms Control Division arrested Takayuki Sasabe (37) of Hakata-ku on suspicion of violating the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act for intent to sell quasi-legal herbs containing scheduled drugs. He is suspected of putting two six-gram bags of Jotei, a substance containing the scheduled drug alpha-PVP, on display for sale in the Nagoya branch of his Bonbondou head shop. A Nagoya man who allegedly distributed the substance wholesale to Sasabe was also arrested for possession with intent to sell. Sasabe sells quasi-legal herbs starting at \uffe51,500 per gram from shops in Tokyo, Niigata, Aichi, Kumamoto and Okinawa and also offers delivery service. His operation is thought to gross an estimated \uffe524 million per month.  Source: Nishinippon Shimbun, Feb. 21 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/oct12_2008-060.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/oct12_2008-060-e1361525651738.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"\" title=\"oct12_2008-060\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33596\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Photo for image purpose only.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On. Feb 20 the Aichi Prefectural Police Drug and Firearms Control Division arrested Takayuki Sasabe (37) of Hakata-ku on suspicion of violating the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act for intent to sell quasi-legal herbs containing scheduled drugs. He is suspected of putting two six-gram bags of Jotei, a substance containing the scheduled drug alpha-PVP, on display for sale in the Nagoya branch of his Bonbondou head shop. A Nagoya man who allegedly distributed the substance wholesale to Sasabe was also arrested for possession with intent to sell. Sasabe sells quasi-legal herbs starting at \uffe51,500 per gram from shops in Tokyo, Niigata, Aichi, Kumamoto and Okinawa and also offers delivery service. His operation is thought to gross an estimated \uffe524 million per month.  Source: Nishinippon Shimbun, Feb. 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":33596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-82091","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/82091","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\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}