Police in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, have arrested two unemployed men on suspicion of breaking into a mobile phone shop and stealing around 200,000 yen in cash and other items.
According to police, Naoto Otsuki, 45, and Tomonari Miyazaki, 49, are suspected of breaking into the shop in Totsuka Ward in April, broadcaster TBS reported. Police said the two men used a crowbar to pry open the employee entrance door at the back of the shop to get in.
Police said Miyazaki has denied the allegation, while Otsuki has admitted to robbing the store. Otsuki was quoted by police as saying, "I have committed dozens of different thefts in the prefecture."
Between March and May of this year, there were approximately 130 cases in Kanagawa Prefecture, in which thieves broke into stores during the early hours of the morning and stole cash and other items. The total losses and damage amounted to approximately 37 million yen, police said
Police have already arrested two other men in connection with some of those cases and believe that Miyazaki and Otsuki may be part of a larger gang of thieves.
© Japan Today
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Geeter Mckluskie
Their names identify them as being Japanese...aren't you going to mewl about that...I mean not ALL Japanese commit crime...right?
kaimycahl
This is what you call an honest but dumbest criminal. It seems perhaps getting caught he was and underling taking the rap for the robbery to take the heat off of the gang!
Police said Miyazaki has denied the allegation, while Otsuki has admitted to robbing the store. Otsuki was quoted by police as saying, "I have committed dozens of different thefts in the prefecture."
GuruMick
I'm interested in the offenders' ages.
Bit old for "Break n Enter "....thats a young mans game.
shogun36
You dingbat.
the items, I can understand.
But the cash? don't these stores do daily deposits of the day's earnings in the bank? or at least lock up what's there, in a safe?
TokyoLiving
To jail with those loser criminal clowns...
Chico3
Wow! Talk about self-incrimination at its finest.