Two men in Yokohama were arrested and prosecuted for stealing a car using a technique called "CAN Invader" that used special equipment to break into the car's computer system.
Police are investigating that the total damage amounted to 270 million yen by repeatedly stealing with the same method.
Both were arrested and charged with unemployed Kazunori Yamaguchi (40) and Yoshikazu Manda (50) in Naka-ku, Yokohama, who stole a luxury car from a parking lot in Nishi-ku, Yokohama last December. Is being asked.
Around the same time, he was also sent off for suspicion of stealing a car from his apartment in Izumi-ku, Yokohama.
According to police investigation, the two were suspected of stealing with a special device called "CAN Invader" that illegally accessed the computer system of the car and started the engine, and from the home of Defendant Manda, this special device Is found.
Based on the statements of the two people, the police used the same method to repeatedly steal about 60 cases in various parts of the Tokyo metropolitan area in the eight months until March, and investigated that the total damage amounted to 270 million yen. I am.