No, not me. I'm still here. It's my younger brother, BK, who got busted for possession of 34g (just over 1 ounce) of marijuana, and 5 plants, three of which were post harvest. The legal system in this country is draconian to say the least. My brother was arrested on March 2nd, when the police came to his home with a search warrant, and he has been in solitary confinement with no access to the outside world apart from his lawyer who can talk to him only through a perspex wall.
And ofcourse his conversations with his legal council are monitored by the po-leeese.
If you are caught growing pot in this country, the pigs try to automatically add a bonus to your possession charges called "with intent to supply" and the judge has deferred his access to us twice. I remember doing some research ages ago on how the police handle detainees -- i.e. people who have not officially been charged with a criminal offence. It ain't pretty...
Although my brother's arrest was on March 2nd, and legally he cannot be detained without access to family for more than 22days, the legal system conveniently discounts weekends as a "day". His lawyer told me that the earliest that we could possibly see him will be at his bail hearing on either March 28th or 29th. If he's granted bail it will be somewhere in the order of 1.5million yen (US$13K) to 3million max (US$26K). That's IF the judge decides that he can go between now and his court cases...
To top it all, we all have to hide this from his company, his girlfriend ends up in hospital with inflamed kidneys from the stress, the wench mum has turned into a zombie, his assistant is rushing around left, right, and centre to keep the lid on things....
I don't need this in my "early" sobriety.
I will be 5 months sober tomorrow. And I guess that my brother, when he gets out, will be joining me at my NA meetings too....
I'm too fucking tired of sobriety. When will it END!!! (I need to get away from this crazy shit for a permanent holiday the sun.)
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OH SHIT!!! So sorry to hear that. My best wishes go out to BK. How did the pigs know? Who's the rat? How long do you reckon he'll get? Good luck "keeping the lid on things". Hang in there guys, you are in my thoughts.
With greetings from Skid Roof.
Dear Skid Roof Krew. Thank you for your message; there's been a series of busts among the gaijin (foreign) community recently, and I guess someone ratted BK out coz he DJs a lot, etc.
Its his first time offence, so we are looking at a commuted sentence 3 to 4 years. With max 4y+ reporting to parole officer, and no leaving the country w/out court approval.
All this for the sake of some greenery...
The pigs are wasting my tax money! Go hunt some *real* criminals, fer fucks sake!!!
I am sorry to hear about BK. That is so stale. The war on drugs needs to end around the world. How fucking stale the whole situation is, I have seen such things happen to my family and it is never fun. Hopefully it will not turn out as bad as expected. Karma to you and BK.
Any news? Been to court yet? Hope things work out as well as they can.
With concern,
Lost Tribe of Israel
jeez, if you can't do the time, don't do the crime
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