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Criminal Records Podcast - The Yakuza Rocket Launcher Case

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The United States Government Is Totally OK With Selling Rocket Launchers for Meth

The feds are already targeting the yamaguchi gumi on drug running charges, so they begin organizing a sting in conjunction with the royal hong kong police force. They bought a rocket launcher just with a pile of drugs. No dmitria. That's ridiculous. It turns out that there was a slight hitch with this whole plan. Their contact, sasaki hero, the guy who was going to set them up with hawaiian gang, was an informant for the drug enforcement agency. So the sting ends up by getting the trigger pulled a little early. Ultimately, the us. Government will end up indicting 11 people in this case,. which is called united states versus m

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