On the 1st of this month, three consecutive slashing incidents occurred in Kawaguchi City and Yokohama City, Saitama Prefecture. was re-arrested in
He denies the allegations against the investigation.
Hiroaki Morikawa (62), a company employee in Hodogaya Ward, was accused of cutting a man's thigh with something like a knife on a sidewalk near JR Hodogaya Station in Yokohama on the 1st of this month. has been arrested on suspicion of assault.
About an hour and a half before the Yokohama incident, the police were investigating a connection between a 61-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man who had their legs cut off one after another on the streets of Kawaguchi City. .
As a result, it was found that Morikawa was suspected of being involved in a case in Kawaguchi City in which a 45-year-old man was slightly injured, so he was re-arrested on suspicion of injury on the 24th.
In response to the police investigation, he denied the charges, saying, "I didn't do it."
Police are also looking into the slashing of a 61-year-old woman.