KANAGAWA (TR) – Kanagawa Prefectural Police final month arrested seven males, together with a Bolivian nationwide, on suspicion of robbing a house in Yokohama City earlier this 12 months, experiences TBS News (Nov. 25).
According to police, the ringleaders of the caper had been Takeo Kevin Liu Baka, a 29-year-old Bolivian nationwide who claims to be {an electrical} tools employee, and Yudai Ishida, a 24-year-old workplace employee from Machida City, Tokyo.
At round 5:10 a.m. on July 28, the pair labored with 5 youths, aged 16 and 17, to stealing a protected containing roughly 7 million yen in money from the house.
They additionally injured a male resident, aged in his 60s, with what gave the impression to be pepper spray.
Upon the arrests of the suspects on suspicion of theft leading to harm and trespassing on November 25, police didn’t reveal whether or not they admit to the allegations.
Tokuryu
Police are investigating the crime as being the work of an nameless, cell crime group (tokuryu).
According to police, Baka and Ishida gave directions to the 5 boys by way of a extremely confidential communication app.
Their arrests had been made potential after safety cameras captured a few of the boys carrying the stolen protected right into a automotive and making their escape. The boys are additionally believed to have had a stun gun on the scene.
Ishida was additionally arrested in October for breaking into a house in Odawara City and stealing 34 watches and different objects value a complete of roughly 3.4 million yen. That case is at present pending.