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Osaka Prefectural Police sent Yasufuku Nishida to the public prosecutor's office on suspicion of possessing an unauthorized GPS jammer for the purpose of interfering with GPS tracking in a car theft case, and charged him with violating the Radio Law. This is considered the first such case in the country.
On the 1st, Osaka Prefectural Police announced that Yasufuku Nishida (46), a self-proclaimed company employee of no fixed abode, was referred to the public prosecutor's office on suspicion of violating the Radio Law, for allegedly carrying a wireless transmitter (GPS jammer) to obstruct tracking using the car's GPS device when stealing a car.
He will be referred to public prosecutors in March 2026, and the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office has already indicted him for violating the same law in July. Prefectural police say this is the first time in the nation that a person has been charged with carrying a GPS jammer for the purpose of stealing a car.
According to the 3rd Investigation Division, the suspect was accused of carrying a jammer capable of transmitting radio waves without a license from the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications in a car in a parking lot in Nagahashi 3-chome, Nishinari Ward, Osaka City on October 26, 2025.
A jammer is a device that makes it impossible to determine location information by emitting radio waves that are noise at the same frequency as the radio waves emitted by GPS satellites.
Nishida reportedly admitted to the charges, saying, ``He had a jammer in his possession to interfere with the radio waves of the stolen car's GPS device and cut off communications.''
Prefectural police have arrested and referred a total of five people, including Nishida, to the public prosecutor's office on suspicion of theft and home invasion, alleging that they conspired to repeatedly steal cars and other crimes in eight prefectures, mainly Osaka, from May 2025 to January 2026.
On October 1st, he was sent to a prosecutor on suspicion of stealing car parts, and a series of investigations were completed. The damage was reported to include 21 cars, with a total cost of approximately 81.65 million yen.
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Suspect Nishida will be tried and there is a possibility that he will be found guilty.
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