Police in Matsuda, Kanagawa Prefecture, have arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of aggravated assault and theft after he forcibly hugged a woman and stole her face mask.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 7:20 p.m. on April 20. The 35-year-old woman was returning home when Takumi Ishiguro hugged her from behind and subsequently stole her mask, Fuji TV reported.
Ishiguro, a self-professed hospitality worker, is believed to be responsible for a string of five similar incidents targeting women in the vicinity since January. He was arrested on Tuesday after an analysis of street surveillance camera footage.
Police said he he has denied the charge, and quoted him as saying, “I don’t remember this happening at all.”
© Japan Today
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Navin Monash
He just wants to sniff the mask ....not wrong
sir_bentley28
Is this the new updated version of "I was drunk and can't remember!"?
fillmore2
this guy has problems, dirty problems
Pukey2
Is he trying to steal someone's virus?
Speed
I don't you'll ever hear of this kind of crime being reported anywhere else besides Japan. Arrested for "hugging" and stealing a mask.
Ted Witherspoon
Once again another assault on an innocent young woman! However didn’t this fool think this assault thru, perhaps she had the virus and by him putting her mask on iwould guarantee he would come down with COVID-19!
Bjorn Tomention
Do the hustleToday 06:56 pm JST
Or he could make a scrap book and call it Face Book, oops damn , sorry ....zuckerburg..already did that didnt he. So this one would be called face mask book.
There is some sick Fekkers out there though isnt there.
n1k1
What is this ? Attempted indirect murder ..mental
Do the hustle
I would not be surprised if this creep had a series of photos of his victims stored on his phone, so he can add a face to the mask while he’s getting his jollies sniffing the mask. There seems to be no end of demented and pervertEd creeps in Japan.
Toshihiro
that's one unhygenic fetish especially during this pandemic
pudus
"he forcibly hugged a woman and stole her face mask"
twingle twangle twingle tweets, time for this one to be kept off the streets
JerseyDevil
Aw he got caught so he has denied the charge, and quoted him as saying, “I don’t remember this happening at all.”
IMO perhaps electrodes attached to that skull will jog his convenient memory lapse.
Bugle Boy of Company B
Better he steal her mask instead of some other thin material covering her lips.
kurisupisu
Or to the other patients on an isolation ward...
thepersoniamnow
Hug and used face mask stolen.
Imagine telling that to your cell mates as why you are doing time.
King of all fools.
kurisupisu
Sounds like a dangerous act to steal a face mask...
JJ Jetplane
Perverts seem to never stop coming up with new obsessions.