{"id":275237,"date":"2026-02-05T10:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/275237\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T10:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:31:11","slug":"life-sentence-sought-for-luffy-crime-ring-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/275237\/","title":{"rendered":"Life sentence sought for \u2018Luffy\u2019 crime ring member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors on Thursday sought a life sentence for Toshiya Fujita, a senior member of a crime ring behind a series of robbery and fraud cases across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The lay-judge trial for 41-year-old Fujita at the Tokyo District Court, presided over by Judge Sakon Togari, concluded with the defense\u2019s final arguments. The verdict is set to be handed down on Feb. 16.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the prosecution stated in their closing arguments that Fujita was aware of the use of a crowbar in the fatal assault of a 90-year-old woman in the city of Komae, western Tokyo, in a high-profile robbery \u2014 one of the series of cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prosecutors on Thursday sought a life sentence for Toshiya Fujita, a senior member of a crime ring behind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,4560,55780,85,46,142471,142472,2593,13591],"class_list":["post-275237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-fraud","tag-gangs","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-japanese-courts","tag-luffy","tag-philippines","tag-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}