The Shizuoka District Court on Wednesday sentenced a former police sergeant to 21/2 years in prison for leaking investigative information to three criminal suspects in a drugs case, including a woman with whom he was on intimate terms.
Handing down the sentence, presiding Judge Hiroyuki Asagawa said Masahiko Masuda, 34, allowed the woman to take advantage of their relationship at the expense of public trust in the police.
Masuda informed Nahomi Nagakura, 30, unemployed, sometime between February and October last year that warrants had been issued for her and two men suspected of violating the Stimulant Drugs Control Law, the court said.
The three are now on trial before the Yokohama District Court in the drugs case.