Former UFC and PRIDE fighter Enson Inoue has been handed a two-year prison sentence after being caught importing chocolate infused with drugs.
However, the sentence has been suspended for four years, allowing Inoue to avoid serving time behind bars if he stays out of trouble during that period.
The charges were related to Inoue’s involvement with chocolate bars containing psilocybin, a psychoactive substance.
This incident is his second run-in with the law – 16 years ago, Inoue was arrested in Tokyo for marijuana possession.
Back then, he spent almost a month in prison and received a similar suspended sentence, which kept him in Japan for four years on probation.
Inoue has previously spoken about how that brief time in jail changed his outlook on life.
In a 2008 interview with MMA Junkie, he described the experience:
It was a bad experience, but it turned very good.
If I had to go back, I think this is what I needed.I was like a leaf drifting down a river without direction… I was headed for bad things, so it was good.
It gave me a whole new perspective.
If Inoue stays within the law for the next four years, he will avoid further consequences from this case, closing a chapter on his legal troubles.
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