Kazuhiro Kokubo

More Sports / Winter Sports Jan 28, 2020

Ex-Olympic snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo gets suspended prison term for smuggling cannabis

A court on Tuesday sentenced former Olympic snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo to three years in prison, suspended for four years, for smuggling cannabis from the United States. The Tokyo District Court found the 31-year-old conspired with a male acquaintance, already found guilty, to smuggle around 57 ...

National / Crime & Legal Nov 7, 2019

Japanese Olympic snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo suspected of smuggling cannabis from U.S.

Former Japanese Olympic snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo was arrested Wednesday for allegedly smuggling cannabis from the United States for profit. The narcotics control department of the Kanto-Shinetsu Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare also searched his home the same day. According to the department, Kokubo, 31, a ...