TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested three males suspected of working inside an nameless tokuryu crime ring over an tried theft at a pawnshop within the Kabukicho nightlife district.
Naoki Tajima, 27, Reio Ishizawa, 21, and Shoya Hiyoshi, 21, are accused of breaking into the pawnshop on March 10.
According to police, the suspects assaulted a male worker and demanded, “Hand over the gold.” They then tried to loot the shop’s valuables.
The suspects in the end fled the scene empty-handed. The worker was unhurt within the incident.
Police haven’t disclosed whether or not the suspects have admitted to the costs.
Investigators imagine the trio are members of a tokuryu group, which is a fluid, nameless crime syndicate usually recruited by way of social media, after they had been noticed regrouping close to the scene shortly after the botched heist.
Authorities are additionally aggressively investigating the trio’s potential hyperlink to a separate theft that happened on the very same day. In that incident, thieves efficiently made off with roughly 1.1 million yen from a pawnshop in Katsushika Ward.