I wanted to sell alcohol to make a living.”…Dora 2 pitcher of the Giants “Repeated shoplifting and half a life of falling from grace” – horrifying true picture.
The Giants’ second draft pick pitcher was arrested again.
Hitoshi Ono, 46, who joined the Giants in 1997, was arrested by the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Seya Police Station on June 29 for shoplifting liquor from a supermarket. He is believed to have stolen seven bottles of whiskey worth about 35,000 yen from a supermarket in Seya-ku, Yokohama.
On May 8 of this year, Ono apparently put the whiskey in a bag and was leaving the supermarket when he was spotted by a store security guard. He was seized by a nearby person, but he saw an opening and fled. Based on security camera footage, the suspect was arrested at his home in Yokohama City. When questioned by the police, he said, “There is no doubt. He admitted to the crime, saying he wanted to make a living by selling alcohol.
FRIDAY Digital” reported in detail on Ono’s past cases in an article distributed on February 13, 2010. We would like to recount and look back on how the former Giant’s pitcher fell (some content has been revised).
400 bottles of unopened liquor from his home.
When investigators entered the apartment, they gasped.
In the cramped one-bedroom apartment, randomly left unpacked were sake, sake, sake ……. They were all high-class whiskeys, including Yoichi, Chita, and Seabass Regal. The number of bottles was as many as 400.
On February 7, 2010, Akita Chuo Police re-arrested Ono, a former professional baseball player, for stealing whiskey from a mass merchandiser in Chiba City. Ono had just been arrested and charged in January 2010 for stealing 11 bottles of champagne (worth about 82,000 yen) in Akita City in November 2009. This time, he is suspected of stealing eight bottles of whiskey (worth approximately 54,000 yen) that were on display.
When investigators searched Ono’s apartment, they found a large quantity of unopened bottles of liquor. Moreover, they were high-class liquors, including champagne. Normally, when a house search is conducted on a suspect who has stolen alcohol, the smell of alcohol fills the house and empty bottles are found lying around, but all 400 bottles found in Ono’s house were unopened.
Upon investigation, Ono admitted to the crime, saying of the 400 bottles of fine sake, ‘There is no doubt that I stole them. It is believed that he had been stealing outside of Akita and Chiba as well. The police are further investigating.
