A 25-year-old man was caught trying to escape from a detention facility in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, by crawling through a hole in the ceiling, police said Sunday.
Police said the detainee, a an unemployed Vietnamese man from Fujioka in Gunma Prefecture, was arrested last month for breaking into a home in Nikko City and stealing cash and other items. He has also been arrested on suspicion of robbing at least three other mountain homes in four prefectures: Tochigi, Nagano, Gunma and Fukushima, NHK reported.
Police said the man tried to escape through the ceiling of his cell at around 6:45 p.m. on Saturday.
A police officer making his rounds saw the man’s lower body sticking out of the ceiling and disappear into a shaft above the cell. However, he was apprehended about 40 minutes later.
There were two holes in the ceiling but police have not revealed how the detainee made the holes
© Japan Today
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DanteKH
When you bring very cheap labor force and you pay them unhuman salaries, you can expect things like those to happened. They do not steal to get rich, but to survive day by day.
Offcourse nobody cares about those things, only that they are yet another migrant cryminal.
tamanegi
Cancel whatever visa this guy has, deport him and stamp his passport never to be allowed in Japan. Also charge him for any cost of damages and stolen items.
WoodyLee
The area were I live there has been several homes and businesses robberies at night and the police is yet to capture anyone as far as I know!! ? many small businesses were broken into, Hair Salon, Auto repair shop, Accessories shop, private homes and possibly more.
All were robbed at night by breaking the glass of a fixed or sliding doors and or windows with a press tool with a sharp point possibly a screw driver or a center punch then opening the locks on the inside.
Some even have a security system installed but that did not stop the robbers.
The good old days of japan not locking the door or even not having a door in some cases is long gone.
Take care every one, get a motion detection camera with recording connected to your cell phone via wifi is one option, even that may not be good enough.
Yohan
An unemployed Vietnamese man - he should be immediately deported back home and banned from entry into Japan for life.
Wasabi
What does that event mean?
Mr Kipling
They get the same ( low) salary as a Japanese national doing the same job. If you can find one.
Starting to wonder how they recruit, we don't seem to be getting the best.
zulander
When you bring in outsiders with no respect for property rights, or local culture you mean.
Why the assumption he is stealing to "survive"? Maybe he isnt even trying to find a job. We do not know.