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A 31-year-old pachinko parlor employee was arrested for the armed robbery of a bento store in Kochi City on April 30, police said Sunday.
According to police, the suspect, identified as Yuya Iwamura, entered the store at around 5 a.m. on April 30 and threatened the 62-year-old store clerk with a knife, Fuji TV reported. He fled with 70,000 yen, police said. The clerk was not injured.
Police said a DNA analysis of personal belongings left at the scene and store surveillance camera footage led them to Iwamura.
Police quoted Iwamura as saying he couldn't remember what he was doing at the time of the robbery.
© Japan Today
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khulifi
Since Iwamura couldn’t remember what he was doing at the time of the robbery .. he will be released today.
Geoff Gillespie
Why do we always get a quote from the culprit?
FightingViking
Oh these guys have such short memories ! Does he remember his own name ?
Meguroman
Better off robbing the pachinko parlor where he works...
Dennis Bauer
@Meguroman, He probably needed the money to pay off his Pachinko debt, but he forgot about that one too! ;)
wowyz
"Police quoted Iwamura as saying he couldn’t remember what he was doing at the time of the robbery. "
oh yeah, that's right, a worn out and chronologically tired excuse used in j-land when under leagl scrutiny ...quite
effective histoirically for Japanese suspects...
its called selective amnesia...
Yubaru
Personal belongings left at the scene? What did the guy do? Spit on the employee?
Cops sure rushed the DNA sample pretty quick too. Oh and this thief must have priors too, otherwise how would the cops have his DNA on file.
itsonlyrocknroll
It's a relief to know I won't be bumping into the knife wielding bento box store blagger at the Yosakoi-matsuri Festival in August, Kochi is home to my family in Japan.
Nessie
Stand and deliver!