Cocaine Incident
On September 16, 2010, he was arrested along with a 50 year-old woman in a parking lot in Red Brick Park in Yokohama, Japan for possession of cocaine. According to police he was in possession of two bags of cocaine, and admitted "It is for my own use". When the police guarded against Yokohama because of APEC Japan 2010, he and a 50 year-old woman were arrested. Tashiro said he bought cocaine from a DJ.
Yokohama District Public Prosecutors' Office indicted him on October 6, 2010.
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