Yomiuri: Chiba police officer held over drug possession
A 48-year-old assistant inspector of the Chiba prefectural police was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of possessing stimulant drugs, the Metropolitan Police Department said. According to the MPD, Yusuke Sato and a female acquaintance were in possession of stimulant drugs around midnight on Dec. 8. in a car parked outside a sushi restaurant in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture. Sato belongs to the No. 2 Criminal Affairs Division at Sakura Police Station and has been in charge of drug investigations since March 2008. The MPD searched his house and office Dec. 15, and found at his home a scale and an unused syringe that appeared to be for drug use.