21-year-old man arrested for robbing convenience store with hammer

A hammerhead?

What a tool! Glad to see he got nailed!

dumb%$$...I can't believe he was able to rob a convenience store......with a hammer.

♫♫ If I had a hammer... ♫♫

And stop!.......Hammertime!

DNA evidence? Fingerprints surely.

DNA evidence? Fingerprints surely.

Could have been blood or some other bodily fluid...but yeah, fingerprints are more likely and less time consuming.

Every robbery should have a theme song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5X5zh00rdg&feature=related

he should have read "robbing stores for Dummies" :p

You broke the Law,son.

The creativity here in this country is Amazing! The stupidity, oh well no comments....

Using a hammer is actually very popular in Japan, and I for one do not want to get hit on the head, face, etc..but some nutcase using a hammer, this idiot fool could have easily killed some poor young worker there at 4am, luckily no one was injured. Oh, GOOD ON THE J POLICE!!!

DNA is kind of expensive. With the chain of custody security, it might cost more than the amount stolen.

It doesn't have to be blood or anything bad. It does have to be uncontaminated, and documented by securing the crime zone and chain of custody of evidence.

What a tool! Apparently, his prints were already in the database. Maybe he just wanted some free room and board. Guess he might be using a bigger hammer to break big rocks into smaller ones, then.

whaw, if i ever would have been stupid enough to do that i dont think i'd need a hammer, i'd choose my store carefully since the local nightshop owner i get along with very well

he didnt attack anyone so he was (likely) no sociopath, he just needed money for something, what was it for, i think the reactions here are a bit shallow

I bet the clerk asked him if he needed a bag with that. Or a spoon. Or a napkin. Or a straw. Or chopsticks....etc etc!

Not the sharpest tool in the shed

EkkusaitoJul. 03, 2012 - 08:30AM JST

DNA evidence? Fingerprints surely.

Yea, I get more and more concerned that JT is just making stuff up when they feel like it. DNA is a non-traceable technique as it currently stands. The mis-identification rate is actually pretty high with DNA evidence used to prosecute, though it's much more effective as a defense tool (false negatives are pretty much non-existent, false positives are fairly high). Not to mention you need a sample of the blood pattern in the first place.

Quite likely they threatened the guy saying they had DNA evidence, and actually caught him using old fashion camera and witness descriptions. Unless the guy had a passport or prior run-in with cops, few Japanese people actually have fingerprint samples either.

Should do 7-11 months.

JT

I read the Japanese version of this story on several websites now, and most of them say "finger prints"...might want to correct that. Additionally, nowhere did they say that they lifted the prints from the hammer, but rather from the convenience store counter.

More details

The convenience store clerk was also 21 years old. The suspect said that he did it to pay for living expenses. The convenience store was a "Sankus" The exact amount was 96,000 JPY

The convenience store was a "Sankus"

Should have guessed that, apparently the design of the store makes it really easy to steal and rob from the store.

I'm glad the police hit the nail on the head and the robber got hammered!

Did he remember to say 'Sankus' as they handed him the cash?

It's good the clerk wasn't the proverbial "nail that sticks up" or he would have been "hammered down".

I don't know why some ppl are saying it is stupid to use a hammer-- a very scary weapon. Maybe more so than a knife, tho hard to say. Large hammers, clubs and maces were popular and scary weapons for armies before the age of guns.

Fingerprints-- now that's dumb. DNA- sweat or some tissue, dead skin, saliva (he'd licked his fingers earlier) --very imaginable.

good

They sure processed that DNA evidence fast didn't they? Good thing it was not DNA from a dead girl's underwear or it would have taken years while the wrong guy sat in prison. But naturally just the fingerprints was not enough in this case, and they had to make absolutely sure they had the right guy, because next time he might have used a hammer to crack some walnuts or something!

Did he remember to say 'Sankus' as they handed him the cash?

No. The clerk gave him the money and said "Take it and run! You can Sankus later!".

Ichikawa's big mistake was leaving the hammer with his fingerprints & DNA on the counter.

Ballsy, but incredibly stupid.

quite the blunt exit id say!

Unless the guy had a passport or prior run-in with cops, few Japanese people actually have fingerprint samples either.

You don't get fingerprinted for a passport so that wouldn't matter.

And as noted earlier, the guy had to have been either in a job where he needed to be printed or previously caught by the cops for his prints to be on record.

He's another one from the low end of the gene pool.