A 59-year-old man arrested for conviction at a convenience store robbery or involved in another incident September 24th 11:45
A 59-year-old man was arrested for plunging into a convenience store in Minato-ku, Tokyo with a knife and taking over 500,000 yen of cash. The Metropolitan Police Department is also investigating the association of a robbery incident that occurred in another store immediately before.
Arrested were unemployed and suspected Kenji Oba (59) in Minato-ku, Tokyo.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, on October 10th this month, there was a suspicion of robbery that he took a knife into a convenience store in Shiba, Minato, and took around 560,000 yen of cash.
The surrounding security cameras show camouflage clothes running away on a bicycle, and Oba suspects seized a knife that was used in the incident along with clothes and bicycle.
After acknowledging the suspicion of the investigation, he stated that he wanted "gold. The money he took was used to purchase plastic models for hobbies and used for pachinko".
One and a half hours before the incident, a man with a knife at another convenience store nearby wore something like a tear spray, and a burglar injury case in which three clerk and others were injured.
The Metropolitan Police Department decided to investigate the relationship because the spray was also seized from the home of the suspect Oba.