TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested two of three would-be robbers who entered a jewellery retailer close to Ueno Station on Sunday night and bought greater than they bargained for within the kind of a giant workers member wielding a sasumata pole, studies TBS News (Nov. 28).
Such a pole is a two-pronged and used to catch criminals or animals, tailored from a samurai-era weapon.
Wearing bike helmets, the trio went into the shop at 6.40 p.m. and smashed show circumstances with a steel bar in an try to steal jewellery and different valuables. However, with their botched banditry captured on video by a passerby, the hapless threesome made a speedy exit pursued by the sasumata-wielding guardian of the shop’s treasures.
After kicking over one of many bikes the robbers had arrived on, the heavily-set workers member swung on the already quickly retreating miscreants. Another man who emerged from the shop kicked over the opposite bike, whereas his coworker repeatedly struck the primary motorcycle with the pole.
A lot of valuable steel and jewellery outlets are positioned close by and the proprietor of 1 reported noticing suspicious habits by younger males on two bikes within the days earlier than the tried heist. Other shops within the space have beforehand been focused by thieves, in line with the proprietor.
On Monday evening, two of the robbers, each aged 18, surrendered to police in Saitama Prefecture. Police are in search of the whereabouts of the third member of the gang on suspicion of theft.