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A 58-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of pickpocketing an IC commuting card from the handbag of another woman on a subway train in Tokyo.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 8:30 a.m. on Friday in a women’s-only car on the Chiyoda line between Shin-Ochanomizu and Otemachi stations, Kyodo News reported. The suspect, a part-time worker from Tokyo’s Arakawa Ward, was caught by a female police officer as she reached into the handbag of a 45-year-old woman from Saitama Prefecture and removed the IC card.
Police said female officers have been on duty in women-only cars on the Chiyoda line during morning rush since receiving reports of a woman pickpocket on Sept 16.
© Japan Today
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Hiro
Nice job
Wesley
Good job, officer!
Mr Kipling
There used to be a lot of cases about 10 years ago involving pickpocketing gangs from Korea. Thankfully, that seems to have gone down. Or they got better and don't get caught.
commanteer
Maybe they decided it's no longer worthwhile to come to Japan and steal the rapidly shrinking yen. Maybe the pickings are better in Seoul.
Numan
When I first got to Japan a longtime ago, I was warned about older citizens pickpocketing especially women in the morning on crowded trains. They were thought of as less suspicious.
WA4TKG
EXCELLENT work, nice going
shogun36
Now there’s something you don’t hear everyday.
An all female crime/police story.
More refreshing to hear than the same old perverted or drunk oyaji story.
WA4TKG
Realistic:
I had my brand new iPod Touch taken out of my backpack by one, it was the only person that came anywhere near me and I had just used it five minutes earlier
TokyoLiving
The fact that a simple pickpocketing incident makes national headlines shows that Japan is one of the safest countries of the world..
Like it or not..