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Man arrested for stealing luxury items from neighboring apartment in Yokohama

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Police in Yokohama have arrested a 53-year-old man on suspicion of stealing valuable items from the apartment of the man who lives next-door to him in a high-rise apartment, last year.

According to police, Junichi Goto, a company employee, is accused of stealing 34 items, including six high-end watches and bracelets, worth a total of about 23 million yen, from his neighbor’s apartment in Minato Mirai in August 2023, TV Asahi reported.

Police said Goto, who was arrested on Wednesday, has denied the allegation and quoted him as saying “They were given to me as a gift.”

Police said a man and his wife who live in the apartment beside Goto invited him in for drinks. After the wife went to bed, Goto and the man kept drinking. When he fell asleep, Goto is suspected of stealing watches and other jewelry from the apartment.

The man and his wife noticed that their valuables were missing the next morning and contacted police.

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"Goto" a phonetically appropriate name for a thief!

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A veritable criminal mastermind.

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According to police, Junichi Goto, a company employee, is accused of stealing 34 items, including six high-end watches and bracelets, worth a total of about 23 million yen, from his neighbor’s apartment in Minato Mirai in August 2023, TV Asahi reported.

Police said Goto, who was arrested on Wednesday, has denied the allegation and quoted him as saying “They were given to me as a gift.”

That is one heck of a gift! According to him, they must have liked him a lot...

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A little too obvious Mr thief. Some people just like taking stuff I guess

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a man and his wife who live in the apartment beside Goto invited him in for drinks. After the wife went to bed, Goto and the man kept drinking. When he fell asleep, Goto is suspected of......

Pretty sure that's the beginning to a an entire genre of AV videos.

But usually it's the husband that "goes to bed first."

their valuables were missing the next morning and contacted police.

shortly after, Goto knocks on the door and says, "soooooo.I heard you got robbed?"

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What if he's telling the truth? Hell of a way to get revenge on a neighbour: invite him round; shower him with gifts; next day, call the police and he ends up in prison.

(Just saying)

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You invite someone over and then fall asleep? Stop drinking and inviting people over. Get a safe of some sort and lock up your valuables while you're at it. I don't have any sort of collection like that but it would be a headache trying to get my safe out of the closet, much less the house.

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I wonder how he thought that was going to work out. They'll never suspect it was me? He's a company employee. Can't imagine he's knocking it out of the park at work!

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“They were given to me as a gift.”

Sounds like a JOKE but again anything could happen when Alcohol is involved.

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