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24 cars broken into in one night in Saitama area

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Twenty-four cars were broken into and several items stolen on Tuesday night in the three Saitama Prefecture cities of Kasukabe, Sugito and Satte, police said Wednesday.

Police aid all the incidents involved cars parked outside restaurants and pubs along National Route 4, Fuji TV reported.

According to police, the first case came to light at around 8 p.m. Tuesday in Kasukabe when a man found that his car had been broken into and a bag containing 300,000 yen stolen from the back seat. The man had parked his car outside a yakiniku restaurant.

Over the next two hours, police received reports of 23 other cases in which car windows were broken and items stolen, worth about 360,000 yen.

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....his car had been broken into and a bag containing 300,000 yen stolen from the back seat.

3 grand in the back seat. That's a hell of a lot of money to leave lying around. It seems quite a lot of people in Japan do.

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glass quality in question?!

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I wonder if that group of restaurants has recently refused to pay protection money to the local crime organization?

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Sound pretty wild and high-profile. I imagine that victims of the crime have suffered a good deal from the car break-ins including repairing charges of broken windows. Hope the police arrest the suspect(s) as early as possible.

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Who leaves 300k lying in the backseat of a car? In Saitama?

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Who leaves 300k lying in the backseat of a car? In Saitama?

A victim did

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