KANAGAWA (TR) – Amid a collection of robberies within the Tokyo metropolitan space, a girl with two youngsters has been arrested in reference to a robbery-murder case in Yokohama City.
According to the police, Miho Kimoto is among the many suspects who conspired to interrupt into the house 75-year-old Hiroharu Goto in Aoba Ward round October 15.
They are then alleged to have assaulted and killed Goto and stolen roughly 200,000 yen in money.
“I recovered the money obtained from the crime. I deny that I participated in the robbery,” Kimoto stated upon her arrest on November 2.
Police stated that one other suspect, Mazuki Takarada, 22, left the money in a park bathroom in Tokyo, and Kimoto retrieved it.
However, Kimoto didn’t have the money upon her apprehension, and the police are investigating the chance that she gave the cash to another person.
In latest weeks, police have arrested 39 individuals in reference to an area of robberies in Tokyo and Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama prefectures. In most of these circumstances, the suspects have been recruited on social media or underground websites through job postings claiming to supply a “high salary.”