Iwaki police re-arrest 18-year-old over cannabis held on 10 September
Iwaki Higashi police in Fukushima Prefecture re-arrested an 18-year-old office worker on 5 November 2026 on suspicion of possessing cannabis in a building in the city on 10 September. He had already been arrested red-handed on 16 October for possessing cannabis on another day, and police say he admits the new allegation.
Iwaki Higashi police said they re-arrested an 18-year-old office worker who
lives in Iwaki City on suspicion of possessing cannabis.[1][2][3][4]The re-arrest, on
the morning of 5 November 2026 in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, was for
possessing cannabis at a building in the city on 10 September.[1][4]The youth
had already been arrested red-handed on 16 October 2026 on suspicion of
possessing cannabis on a different day.[1][2][5][4]
Police said further investigation flushed out the 10 September possession, and
they re-arrested him on 5 November.[1][2][3]The youth admits the allegation, police
said.[1][2][3][4]
Iwaki Higashi police are investigating how he obtained the cannabis and the
wider circumstances of the case.[1][2]The two arrests are being handled by Iwaki
Higashi police station, the report says.[6]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No weight or number of cannabis items was published for either possession date, so only the arrest is recorded as a figure.
The 16 October red-handed arrest was reported separately, on 16 October 2026, by the same broadcaster; only its headline, visible on the syndicated page, could be opened for this case, and it does not state the date of the earlier possession.
The report does not say whether the 10 September location in Iwaki is connected to the car park where the October arrest was made.
No charges, custody decision or court outcome were reported; police were still investigating how the youth obtained the cannabis.
The article does not give the youth's name or the exact time of the 5 November re-arrest; 5 November is both the re-arrest date and the publication date.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in ぐるっと会津（福島中央テレビ（FCT））: Police said the earlier arrest, reported on 16 October, came after a stop-and-question in a car park, where officers found a bag of cannabis in his car.
The submitted Excite page shows only the headline, publication date and a truncated snippet, with the full text on an external page; the full account was corroborated through the linked mirror of the same broadcaster report.
The page's truncated teaser also displays a separate headline about a suspected stimulant-drug arrest of a 78-year-old man, a different event left out here.
The MSN copy is a syndication of the same Fukushima Central Television (FCT) report already cited, so it is not an independent account and adds no new details.
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