Yakuza leader arrested in U.S. for trying to buy surface-to-air missiles with meth and heroin.

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1. Just give us Hostages instead, it’s a fairer trade

2. What kind of idiot thinks they can buy surface to air missiles on the streets of NYC? With drugs?! LMAO. They were watching too many movies.

3. Have they checked him for tattoos? Just to see if he’s genuine?

4. To be fair who wouldn’t wanna buy surface-to-air missiles that have meth and heroin with them?

5. That is some real hustle

6. Lol fucking retard 🤣

7. Dame da ne

8. So he was running weapons with some Thais to sell to Myanmar. Got caught in a standard fbi setup then sting. That photo of him with the rocket launcher is ridiculous.

9. He showed his face in that city for one freakin second and fate shovelled shit in his face

10. Compared to a lot of the news I’ve been consuming lately, this made me strangely feel better.

11. This whole story is awful. Trying to exchange meth and heroin for stolen missiles is a terrible thing. But it’s also really sad because it sounds like they were trying to supply the missiles to one of the ethnic groups being attacked by the genocidal government that took over by coup last year. China and Russia are supplying arms to the government, while there’s an ongoing debate on whether the West should be supplying arms to these groups directly.

12. Yakuza man summarily given Florida citizenship.

13. Silly Yakuza. You can’t buy surface to air missiles with drugs. What you need is a vending machine and a supermad bartender

14. Drugs for weapons? This is 1980s level stuff, you need to get with the modern times Yakuza.

15. An early candidate for headline of the year.

16. What the hell!?

17. /r/nottheonion

18. The photo caption even seems to indicate they showed him the goods in ~~the Netherlands~~ *Denmark*.

    “Gotta keep this transaction on the down low. Real clandestine. Meet us in New York City, even though we’ve shown our ability to smuggle them out of the country. Don’t forget the 2,200 lbs of fucking drugs.”

    Fuck’s sake, I know they were successful, but these DEA agents need some training on plausible cover stories.

19. Cash only dude.

20. like a comicbook super villian

21. …and here I was thinking that getting shot at with rocket launchers in the game Yakuza 4 was unrealistic. I stand corrected!

22. #LMFAO

23. Selling hard drugs is bad obviously.

    But what factions in Myanmar?

    Considering the regime has conventional channels I suspect maybe it was “good guys” there?

    We do live in a complex world.

24. Just a businessman doing business

25. Yakuza×GTA

26. This sounds like something Majima Goro would do.

27. More on this subject from other reputable sources:

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    – Reuters (A): [U.S. arrests leader of Japanese crime syndicate on drugs, weapons charges](https://www.reuters.com/world/us-arrests-leader-japanese-crime-syndicate-drugs-weapons-charges-2022-04-07/)
    – CNN.com (C-): [US arrests alleged yakuza leader on drugs, weapons charges ](https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/asia/yakuza-us-missiles-drugs-japan-myanmar-rebels-intl-hnk/)
    – Al Jazeera (C): [US arrests yakuza leader over alleged drugs for missiles deal](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/8/us-arrests-yakuza-leader-over-alleged-drugs-for-missiles-deal)
    – Guardian (C+): [US arrests Japanese yakuza leader over alleged missiles-for-heroin plot](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/07/us-japan-yakuza-takeshi-ebisawa-crime-drugs-weapons)

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