Successive robbers pretending to be inspecting gas Similar tricks in Kawasaki and Kamakura Kanagawa Aug 28 1:29
On the 27th, a man masquerading as checking gas for a house in Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture, ran a knife to a woman living in this house, robbed him of cash, and fled. On the 27th, a similar attack occurred in Kawasaki City, and the police are investigating the alleged robbery and are investigating the relationship between the two cases.
According to police, a man visited a house in Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture at about 6 pm on the 27th, and told a woman in his 60s who came to the intercom to check gas.
When a woman guided her to the bathroom, the man suddenly closed the woman's mouth and struck a knife to request cash etc., and when he stole tens of thousands of yen and a cash card, he tied the woman's limbs with adhesive tape. I ran away.
The woman was not injured.
The man was in his thirties and was wearing a black work clothes and wearing a mask, so he joined the man who seems to be in his 60s who was waiting near the outside of the house, and he escaped as it was. Is that.
On the afternoon of the 27th, a couple of men pretending to be checking gas for a visit to a house in Tama-ku, Kawasaki City visited the house and tied the limbs of a woman in her 60s with adhesive tape and tens of thousands of yen in cash. There is an incident in which a few cash cards are stolen and escaped.
Police are investigating the alleged robbery and are also looking for links due to the similar tactics of the two cases.