Former YouTuber Watanabe Mahoto was arrested

Former popular YouTuber Watanabe Mahoto (28), who is engaged to former Keyakizaka46 Imazumi Yui (22), was arrested on March 17th by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department as he is suspected for violating the Child Prostitution and Pornography Prohibition Law.

Watanabe was taken to the Akasaka Police Department after 2:30 p.m.  After 7 hours of being interrogated, he was taken to Tokyo Wangan Police Station where he was detained around 10 p.m.

On January 21st, Watanabe was accused of threatening a 15-year-old high school girl to send an obscene selfie photos of her to him. Then he threatened to her if she told anyone.

It began when the 15-year-old girl sent a photo to Watanabe of her wearing an outfit with tape on her chest.  After seeing the photo, Watanabe contacted the girl and demanded she send a picture of her whole body without hiding her chest.

He told her, if you send 30 obscene photos, he will call her.  If she sends 50 photos, he will meet with her.

Scared of Mahoto’s request, she told a friend and the friend contact Watanabe who was furious at the girl and said he was betrayed.

This led to the girl to contact YouTuber KoreKore and KoreKore used his YouTube influence to expose Watanabe.  After UUUM confirmed the details, UUUM then canceled his contract.

This was not the first time of trouble for Mahoto.

He was one of the OG Japanese YouTubers who had 2.7 million followers, but in June 2019, Watanabe was arrested in Minato-ku, Tokyo for beating a woman (a former idol, Yumemiru Adolescence member Kyoka) whom he cohabitated with and stepping on her face.

According to reports, Mahoto said he was drunk. News reports are saying that his girlfriend confronted Mahoto in regard to his infidelity and he got angered and beat and injured her.

Mahoto was part of the hip hop group Kaiware Hammer (featuring Mahoto and fellow YouTuber Imiga). Mahoto was the rapper known as BEMA (from WatanaBEMAhoto).

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