Man arrested for selling modified Wiis

- Fukuoka prefectural police arrested and charged an unemployed 67-year-old man in Minamiawaji City, Hyogo prefecture
- arrested for allegedly selling a modified Wii console and violating the Unfair Competition Prevention Law
- the man sold the modified console to "make money on the side"
- police first received a tip about these activities in May last year
- police observed that the man had supposedly sold at least three modified Wii units from May to November
- the man had offered some 172 items, ranging in cost from 1,000 yen (about US$8) to 7,900 yen (about US$69)
- earned about 520,000 yen (about US$4,555) from 2014 to 2016
- the suspect wrote in his deposition that he had looked up how to modify the console online and became good at it