SAITAMA (TR) – Since August 1, Saitama Prefectural Police have develop into conscious of 9 fires of suspicious origin which have damaged out inside a number of kilometers of each other in Kuki and Okegawa cities.
Early on Monday, a warehouse in Kuki caught fireplace. Early the next morning, police apprehended 61-year-old Fumio Okuma, of no recognized occupation, on suspicion of arson. He was in possession of a field of matches, reviews Nippon News Network (Aug. 7).
“I have no recollection of it at all,” Okuma instructed police in denying the fees. “I was out on my bicycle to relieve the stress that had built up in my daily life.”
Okuma was despatched to prosecutors on Wednesday morning.
On August 4, orange flames break up the darkness as they rose from a house in Okegawa. Video captured a automobile parked close by fleeing in a rush as flames unfold close by. Burning objects could possibly be seen falling onto the street as the home was engulfed in intense flames and smoke.
This fireplace was certainly one of six began on that day. “This is what remains of the fire,” a sufferer of one of many blazes mentioned to the community in referring to a matchstick. “It isn’t the type of matchstick that I use. The police found it. It was lying around here.”
Okuma grew to become an individual of curiosity within the case after an examination of safety digicam footage. According to the police, Okuma left his dwelling on his bicycle at round midnight on the August 6.
“I always carry them with me”
He was then noticed by an officer on patrol. Regarding the matches, he mentioned, “I always carry them with me.” He was then taken into custody on a voluntary foundation and arrested.
When the community requested Okuma’s brother whether or not the matches he was carrying had been used for cigarettes, he mentioned, “I don’t know anything about that.”
Police at the moment are investigating whether or not Okuma was certainly behind the opposite eight different fires began underneath suspicious circumstances.