Japanese news outlets and social media have been captivated by the crimes that allegedly involved ringleaders based in the Southeast Asian country. Low-level criminals arrested in Japan told police they received instructions from a person or several people who used the name "Luffy" via the Telegram messenger app. Monkey D. Luffy is the lead character of the hugely popular "One Piece" manga, a straw hat-wearing pirate hunting for a coveted treasure. Officials escorted Kiyoto Imamura and Toshiya Fujita, who were both handcuffed, into a Japan Airlines jet at Manila airport. The two suspects would be accompanied by Japanese police to Tokyo, Philippines Justice Secretary Crispin Remulla told reporters. The four men were held at an immigration detention facility in Manila, where they were caught with cell phones that may have been used to run "criminal enterprises," Remulla told reporters last week. Criminals were reportedly given orders to carry out break-ins or fraud. Japanese … [Read more...] about Japanese ‘Luffy’ criminal ringleaders deported from Philippines