TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 43-year-old man from Saitama Prefecture for allegedly assaulting and injuring a taxi driver and fleeing with out paying the fare, experiences the Sankei Shimbun (June 19).
Early on June 1, Yuta Mochizuki, an workplace employee, allegedly kicked and broke the protecting glass separating the motive force from the passenger a number of occasions in Wako City, Saitama Prefecture.
Mochizuki then assaulted the motive force by pulling his garments whereas the cab was parked at a gasoline station in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo. After the suspect acquired out of the cab, he assaulted the motive force, hitting him together with his elbow. The driver suffered accidents that took two weeks to heal.
He then fled with out paying the fare of 6,300 yen.
Upon his arrest on suspicion of theft leading to harm and inflicting property harm, Mochizuki, who lives in Wako, admitted to many of the allegations. “I was drunk and don’t remember, but I’m sure I did it,” he advised the Itabashi Police Station
The incident began after Mochizuki boarded the cab in Wako. When the male driver requested the vacation spot, Mochizuki turned enraged and commenced to behave violently.