Japanese pop star arrested for stealing pachinko balls.

Marble madness! From Breitbart:

A 26-year-old man who was once a would-be pop star has been arrested along with three co-workers on suspicion of stealing pachinko balls from a pachinko parlor where they work in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, police said Wednesday.

The four, including Kazuki Matsumoto who belonged to entertainment agency Johnny & Associates that has famous pop music groups like SMAP under its wings, are suspected of removing equipment that counts the number of balls from pachinko machines and stealing around 3,300 pachinko balls on the night of Dec. 25 last year.

[...] The police said the four, who have admitted to the charges, divided the proceeds worth about 8,000 yen after cashing the balls. The four were quoted as saying by the police that they did it "on a routine basis."