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Police in Tokyo have arrested a 51-year-old unemployed man who used social networking sites (SNS) to search for the address of a man who owes money to his acquaintance and then broke into the man's residence with a knife and model gun to steal cash.
According to police, on Aug 21, Yuichi Ishizu, a resident of Kamisu, Ibaraki Prefecture, broke into the home of a man in his 40s residing in Tokyo's Adachi Ward. Ishizu threatened the man with a knife and model gun, saying to him: "You owe money to someone, don't you? How much can you pay up now?" Ishizu reportedly made off with 15,000 yen in cash and some clothes.
Police said Ishizu was aware that the victim had borrowed money from his acquaintance and searched for his address using SNS. In addition, the suspect forced the man to write a promissory note to pay back five million yen.
© Japan Today
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extanker
Reminds me of that scene in the movie Snatch...
'And the fact that you've got "Replica" written on the side of your guns. And the fact that I've got "Desert Eagle .50" written on the side of mine...'
Hiro
@Yubari,that is because you ignore the rest and only focus on the few. For the largest city in the world, it will still considered to be the safest even if every day there was a robbery. Because the number of crimes is insignicifant if you considered the size of the population. The aritcle didn’t say is 100% safe,but ranked 1 safest of every city in the world. There is a big difference between the two.
Norman Goodman
The victim posted his home address on social networking sites?
The perp figured this could not get back to him? He just knows out of the blue the victim owes money to someone?
Realization
"Suspect forced the man to write a promissory note to pay back five million yen."
Woooo
What a confidence to back again!!!
I think Suspect left his brain before went to victim :))
Luddite
Yet another candidate for the Darwin Awards.