Police in Nakatsu, Oita Prefecture, have arrested six minors on suspicion of robbing a pachinko parlor on Sunday morning.
Police said the six were high school students and construction workers all under the age of 20, Sankei Shimbun reported. According to police, an employee had just locked up the pachinko parlor and was preparing to go home at 12:30 a.m. Sunday when he was accosted by a group of men at the back door. They forced him inside, threatened him with a knife and demanded money.
The gang got away with 3 million yen in cash from the office safe. The employee was not injured.
Police traced the thieves after identifying a car through street surveillance camera footage taken near the pachinko parlor and arrested them on Sunday night.
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Jonathan Prin
That simple ?
So they used a car registered in one of their names, really ?
Did they admit guilt already ?
Opposite of ocean eleven.
Hervé L'Eisa
Now, since they actively decided to commit such a blatantly criminal act as adults would do, try them in court as adults.
Monozuki
Wow! surveillance camera has worked this time too. Good job, police!
JJ Jetplane
They are lucky its not April. From April, 18 year olds will now be considered an adult.
Sh1mon M4sada
The police saved them from a far worse fate, especially if they were on cameras.
WA4TKG
Everyone said how PROFESSIONAL they were, BEFORE.
LOL
Mr Kipling
The police never say that the criminals were traced by their cell phones.....
oops...tip for future criminals.....
sir_bentley28
Off to a "promising future", I see.
Bernard Marx
Hardly a "Heat" style robbery!
Nippori Nick
Umm, the customers bring money to the pachinko place and spend it. That's how the money gets there. The Pachinko parlour has to deposit said profits in bank.