Police in Tokyo said Friday they have arrested a 28-year-old Uzbek national on suspicion of attempted robbery and assault after he broke into the apartment of a 77-year-old woman in March.
According to police, the suspect, of no fixed address, forced his way into the apartment in Shinjuku Ward as the woman was going out at around 1 p.m. on March 20, Sankei Shimbun reported. He knocked the woman down and threatened her, demanding cash.
The woman resisted and suffered injuries to her jaw and teeth. The man fled without taking anything.
Police identified the suspect from security camera footage taken outside the apartment building, and from the bicycle he rode. He was arrested on March 23 after trespassing into a vacant apartment, where he had apparently been staying, in Nakano Ward.
Police said the man came to Japan as an international student in 2018, applied for refugee status in 2023 and was on provisional release, a period when detention is temporarily lifted.
Police said an analysis of his smartphone indicated he may have received instructions to commit the crime from another person via the LINE messaging app.
© Japan Today
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tamanegi
Arrest, charge, imprison for 10-15 years with hard labor, heavily fine with compensation from him or his family to the elderly lady then deport from Japan forever with all his all his cost of imprisonment and deportation to be paid by himself, his family or the Uzbek government.
Garthgoyle
I wonder. Did he think this was gonna be his path a path of crime, when he came to Japan at the age of 21?
Random
I’m guessing this won’t be viewed in a positive way at his asylum hearing.
WA4TKG
No good Deed (in this case, giving him a Visa) goes unpunished