TOCHIGI (TR) – Following final week’s tire-theft incident in Nikko City, Fuji News Network (June 17) stories on one other case that came about in Ashikaga City.
In video footage shot simply after 2 a.m. on June 9, the thief arrives at a residence sporting a short-sleeve shirt and sandals.
He parks his automotive with the lights on, friends across the again of a block wall and appears round. He then reaches for the tire at his ft and hundreds it into the automotive with ease.
The proprietor of the property was asleep on the time.
All that was stolen was a single tire with a wheel that had been faraway from a automotive for restore.
This was not the primary incident on the residence. Six days earlier than, the proprietor misplaced three tires and wheels. The worth of the 4 tires and wheels is round 20,000 yen.
“He’s a male foreigner, I think,” the proprietor says. “Slim, standing between 165 and 170 centimeters tall. Aged in his late 30s.”
Police are looking for the culprits, suspecting that the identical individual was behind each thefts in Ashikaga.