Ex-Toyama police chief gets suspended 1-yr term for cover-up

TOYAMA, Japan - Masafumi Ueda, former chief of the Toyama prefectural police, enters the Toyama District Court on April 11. He was sentenced to a one-year prison term suspended for four years for covering up illegal drug use by a police informant in 1995.

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