Tokyo prosecutors plan to release Julie Hamp, a former Toyota Motor Corp. executive, after she was arrested last month on suspicion of illegally importing the painkiller Oxycodone into Japan, Kyodo News reported today.Japan's daily Yomiuri newspaper also reported Hamp was unlikely to be charged because prosecutors judged there was little criminal intent in the case, in which a family member had mailed Oxycodone pills to her to alleviate knee pain.
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