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Actress Sakai hesitated to turn herself in due to presence of reporters
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TOKYO, Aug. 10 Kyodo -
Actress Noriko Sakai apparently hesitated to turn herself in after she was told
by an acquaintance that police stations were swarming with reporters following
the arrest of her husband for alleged possession of stimulant drugs,
investigators said Monday.
Sakai was quoted by investigators as saying she ''got into a panic and didn't
know what to do'' after hearing from the acquaintance, whom she had sent to
take a look at the police station where her husband, Yuichi Takaso, 41, was
under arrest and the one which received the search request from her
mother-in-law.
The investigators said the Metropolitan Police Department believes the
38-year-old actress, affectionately called by her fans Nori-P, hesitated to
turn herself in because of her feelings of panic and did not really intend to
run away from the police.
Sakai, who was arrested Saturday night, was sent to the prosecutors Monday
morning.
Shortly after the Aug. 3 arrest of her husband, she disappeared along with
their 10-year-old son. The son was later found safe in Tokyo in the custody of
her acquaintance, but her whereabouts had been unknown until she turned herself
in to the police Saturday.
Sakai has admitted to taking stimulant drugs ''several times'' since last
summer when her husband first recommended her to do so, said the police, who
are now investigating where they obtained the drugs.
Takaso, who describes himself as a professional surfer, was arrested after a
police officer found a plastic bag containing stimulants in his underwear when
he was walking in Tokyo's Shibuya district.
Takaso was quoted as saying by the police that he bought the drugs he was
carrying at the time of his arrest from a foreigner.
The police obtained an arrest warrant Friday for Sakai after finding 0.008 gram
of amphetamine wrapped in aluminum foil in the apartment of the former pop idol
in Tokyo's Minato Ward, where she lives separately from her husband.
Forty-two straws suspected to have been used to inhale stimulants were also
found at her apartment, according to the police.
The police suspect that 0.008 gram may have been residue as the usual dose
taken by users of the stimulant drug is about 0.03 gram.
==Kyodo
2009-08-10 22:08:00
TOKYO, Aug. 10 Kyodo -
Actress Noriko Sakai apparently hesitated to turn herself in after she was told
by an acquaintance that police stations were swarming with reporters following
the arrest of her husband for alleged possession of stimulant drugs,
investigators said Monday.
Sakai was quoted by investigators as saying she ''got into a panic and didn't
know what to do'' after hearing from the acquaintance, whom she had sent to
take a look at the police station where her husband, Yuichi Takaso, 41, was
under arrest and the one which received the search request from her
mother-in-law.
The investigators said the Metropolitan Police Department believes the
38-year-old actress, affectionately called by her fans Nori-P, hesitated to
turn herself in because of her feelings of panic and did not really intend to
run away from the police.
Sakai, who was arrested Saturday night, was sent to the prosecutors Monday
morning.
Shortly after the Aug. 3 arrest of her husband, she disappeared along with
their 10-year-old son. The son was later found safe in Tokyo in the custody of
her acquaintance, but her whereabouts had been unknown until she turned herself
in to the police Saturday.
Sakai has admitted to taking stimulant drugs ''several times'' since last
summer when her husband first recommended her to do so, said the police, who
are now investigating where they obtained the drugs.
Takaso, who describes himself as a professional surfer, was arrested after a
police officer found a plastic bag containing stimulants in his underwear when
he was walking in Tokyo's Shibuya district.
Takaso was quoted as saying by the police that he bought the drugs he was
carrying at the time of his arrest from a foreigner.
The police obtained an arrest warrant Friday for Sakai after finding 0.008 gram
of amphetamine wrapped in aluminum foil in the apartment of the former pop idol
in Tokyo's Minato Ward, where she lives separately from her husband.
Forty-two straws suspected to have been used to inhale stimulants were also
found at her apartment, according to the police.
The police suspect that 0.008 gram may have been residue as the usual dose
taken by users of the stimulant drug is about 0.03 gram.
==Kyodo
2009-08-10 22:08:00
