Driver in the trunk ... Arrested man for taxi robbery September 16 4:36
This month, there have been two cases of robbery in a rough manner aimed at taxis, such as a taxi being attacked in Tokyo and a driver being trapped in the trunk and robbed of cash.
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a 53-year-old man in one of these cases and is investigating that he was involved in the other.
The person arrested was Kazumasa Ogura (53), an unemployed person with an unspecified address.
According to investigators, on the 8th of this month, he took a taxi in Fuchu City, Tokyo, threatened a female driver with a knife, tied his hands and feet and locked him in the trunk, and robbed him of about 40,000 yen in sales. , Suspected of robbery and confinement.
Ogura ran a taxi for about 20 minutes with the driver trapped and ran away, and a woman from the trunk called her on her cell phone and asked for help.
According to the investigators, he admitted the charges by stating that he had done it for the investigation.
On the 4th of this month, four days before this incident, there was an incident in Koto Ward, Tokyo, where a taxi in operation was attacked by a man with a knife and the entire taxi was robbed, implying that Ogura was involved. ..
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the details of the incident.