Suspicion of stealing 1,800 masks "to send to relatives" Arrested Saitama March 9 16:27
While masks were scarce due to the spread of the new coronavirus, interviews with investigators revealed that a 20-year-old man had been arrested for stealing 1,800 masks from a shipping company in Yashio City, Saitama Prefecture. Was. In response to the investigation, he stated that he decided to send it to relatives living in Hokkaido.
Arrested was Rei Ueda (20), a company employee in Matsubushi-cho, Saitama Prefecture, and according to an investigator, 1,800 masks were stored in a warehouse of a shipping company in Yashio, Saitama on last month. Suspected of stealing
Ueda is an employee of a company that subcontracts to this transportation company, admits the charges to police investigations, and states, "I thought I would send the stolen mask to a relative living in Hokkaido." It is doing.
Police are investigating further details.