Magistrate Judge Kenneth Mansfield approved the shift from home detention to a daily curfew for Jason Yokoyama, a former key business partner of accused racketeering boss Mike Miske, who had been released to home detention in September 2021.

Mansfield’s decision came after a brief hearing on Tuesday, and his order granting the motion seeking curfew was posted Wednesday morning.

The court’s action deletes the home detention requirement, which allowed Yokoyama to leave his parents’ home only for certain limited purposes, and replaces it as follows:

Participate in the following location restriction program and comply with its requirements as directed by Pretrial Services. The Court authorizes release under the CURFEW restriction. Unless otherwise ordered in Special Condition (7o), you are restricted to your residence every day during the curfew hours as determined by Pretrial Services.

Yokoyama remains subject to other conditions, including GPS monitoring, and other conditions, along with drug and alcohol testing. He is prohibited from contacting any co-defendants, or having contact with any business associated with Miske.

It marked another success in the case for Yokoyama’s defense attorney, Bill Harrison, who had managed to win court approval for his client’s initial release from detention over the objection of prosecutors, who had appealed to Judge Derrick Watson to block Yokoyama’s release on bond.

Miske and 10 co-defendants were named in a July 2020 indictment on charges including racketeering conspiracy, drug trafficking, robbery, kidnapping, murder, weapon offenses, and bank fraud. Of the original 10 co-defendants, five have already pleaded guilty and are cooperating with prosecutors. Two defendants, including Yokoyama, were added via a second superseding indictment issued in July 2021.

In addition, several other defendants who were charged separately have also pleaded guilty, admitted to being part of Miske’s racketeering conspiracy, and have agreed to testify against their former associates.