13 people including high school students arrested for buying marijuana illegally at SNS that can erase data December 24 14:50
Police arrested 13 people, including a high school student in Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture, by 24th, saying they had purchased marijuana illegally through SNS. In order to prevent the incident from being discovered, buying and selling uses a special SNS that allows the caller to erase messages and data, and the police are searching for the seller.
By the 24th, 13 people in their teens and 40s, including a 24-year-old carpenter in Minami-ku, Niigata, and a 16-year-old male high school student living in Nagaoka, were arrested. Was.
According to police, the 22 caught were using the same SNS and illegally purchasing or transferring marijuana.
Of these, 12 people who purchased cannabis directly on SNS, all contacted the traffickers on Twitter and exchanged the purchase amount and amount using SNS called "Telegram" .
Police believe that they had both purchased from the same trafficker or trafficking organization because they had obtained cannabis via courier.
According to the police, telegrams have a function that allows callers to erase messages and data after a certain period of time, and it is difficult to restore, so police have left records of sales to escape incidents. I don't think they used any SNS.
The prefectural police headquarters is calling attention that the purchase and sale of cannabis using SNS is widespread, and is investigating the distributor.