67-year-old arrested with one cannabis cigarette in Okayama
Police in Higashi-ku, Okayama arrested a 67-year-old unemployed man on 4 November 2026 for allegedly possessing one cannabis cigarette at home. The search followed a 5 October tip about garden cultivation, and officers are also investigating a cannabis-like plant found in his garden.
🇯🇵 Higashi-ku, Okayama city · Japan
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Okayama Higashi police arrested a 67-year-old unemployed man living in
Higashi-ku, Okayama city, on 4 November on suspicion of violating the Narcotics
and Psychotropics Control Act.[1]The reports identify the Okayama Higashi
Police Station as the authority announcing the arrest.[2]Officers allege that
at about 9:40 a.m. on 4 November the man possessed one cannabis cigarette,
termed daima-tabako, at his home.[2]
Police said they acted after receiving information on 5 October that someone was
growing cannabis in a garden.[2]Following that tip, officers searched the
man’s home on 4 November and found one cannabis cigarette, which led them to
arrest him.[1]
During questioning the man admitted the allegation, telling police that it was
correct.[2]Officers also found a plant resembling cannabis in the garden of
the residence.[2]Police are investigating the garden find on suspicion that
the man had been cultivating cannabis.[2]
No weight was published for the single cannabis cigarette, so no kilograms are recorded.
The garden plant was described only as resembling cannabis, with no count or confirmed identification, so no plants are recorded and cultivation remains suspected rather than charged.
The article text gives only month and day, 4 November and 5 October, so the year 2026 is taken from the publication timestamp.
The suspect’s name was not published.
No charges, custody decision or court outcome were reported; the cultivation inquiry was still under way.
Only the KSB original and its docomo mirror were accessible; no independent second outlet was found.
The page image is captioned as the Okayama Higashi Police Station building and does not show the event, so no media entry is included.
Hiroshima-Chuo police arrested a 41-year-old self-described Nagoya landscaper in Nagarekawa, Hiroshima, on suspicion of cannabis possession. The red-handed arrest was made on 3 November 2026 under the Narcotics Control Law; no quantity or further details were in the accessible text.
Matsusaka police arrested a 22-year-old Filipino beautician on 1 November 2026 after cannabis was found in his car during a late-night patrol in Okamoto-cho. He admitted possession and police say they are tracing how he obtained the drug.
On 6 October 2026 Kagoshima police, searching a barber's home in Higashi Mochida, Aira, for another case, found several cannabis plants in pots on an outdoor terrace and arrested Toru Kondo, 61, and his wife Yuko, 56, on the spot for suspected cultivation.
Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested and indicted a 44-year-old man and a woman for using marijuana, the first use arrests since the revised Cannabis Control Law took effect on 12 December 2024; dried marijuana was found in their vehicle and urine tests were positive.
