Chunichi Dragons pitcher Maximo Nelson has been arrested by Japanese police after a live bullet was found in his bag at an airport in Okinawa.
Nelson, who had been in the southern prefecture for spring training was taken into in custody on suspicion of breaching Japan's laws on gun and sword control.
Nelson is no stranger to trouble with the law, When with the New York Yankees, he was named by the New York Times as one of dozens of Dominican Republic natives caught up in a marriage scheme to fraudulently win U.S. visas for women, which cost him his U.S. visa.


























