TOKYO –
Three males have been arrested on suspicion of making ready to rob a house in Saitama City after police discovered new face masks and crowbars hidden in shrubbery at a coin-operated car parking zone.
The suspects embrace 26-year-old Daiki Suzuki, who was arrested together with two different males.
The investigation started when a passerby contacted police after noticing what seemed to be masks left on the car parking zone.
Responding officers discovered three new full-face masks, crowbars and different objects hid within the bushes.
Suzuki and the opposite suspects had been questioned by police two days earlier than the objects have been found. A subsequent investigation discovered that they’d bought the masks and different gear, resulting in their arrests.
According to police, a house about 3.5 kilometers from the place the objects have been discovered has been focused in 4 housebreaking and associated incidents since February 2026.
Investigators imagine the three suspects have been additionally planning to focus on the identical property.
Police suspect the case could contain a loosely organized prison group often known as tokuryu, however they haven’t decided why the house was repeatedly focused.
Source: FNN