New Type of Robberies around Tokyo

Violent robberies in private houses have recently been occurring around Kanto area. The police arrested suspects of the cases, and it is common for those crimes that the suspects are part-time employees of hidden crime organizations. They were hired without detailed information about their “jobs” and commited the crime threatened by their bosses. The police promote investigation what kind of organization is in the background of consecutive robberies.

A 75-year-old man was found dead in a house in Yokohama city, Kanagawa, on October 16th. He was supposed to have been hit and his mouth was taped. The robbers stole 200 thousand yen of cash in the house. The police suppose that the man was killed by robbers.

 

The police arrested 22-year-old man, who was living in Inzai city, Chiba. He revealed that the robbery was made by three people including him. Having missed paying several hundreds of thousand yen of tax money, the man was looking for a part-time job, and found one that would pay well. It indicated that the man joined the crime organization without willingness of doing what he had done.

 

That kind of employment is called “dark part-time job,” which is recently increasing in urban cities around Tokyo. The suspect revealed that he was instructed by his boss which house he should make a robbery. Although he tried to avoid participating in the robbery, he could not make it, because he had passed gave his boss his personal information and thought his families would be exposed danger, if he would escape from the crime.

 

On October 17th, a woman in Ichikawa city, Chiba, was assaulted in her house and stolen her money using her bank card. Her daughter was kidnapped and found injured in Saitama prefecture. One suspect arrested in the case in Ichikawa was identified as having involved in the case in Yokohama. The same finger prints were found in those two cases.

 

The police found at least fourteen cases of robbery in four prefectures around Tokyo since August, and arrested thirty-one suspects who exercised robberies. They were remotely instructed through social networking services how they should do. The police doubt that there are some “anonymous mobile crime group” in the background. Their network could also have been used for phone frauds which targeted aged people, pretending to be one of their families.

 

The crime group is supposed to have collected information about the houses they would commit robberies, and instruct the “part-time employees” how to steel money in the targeted houses. If the employees tried to escape from the crime, they suddenly turn their attitude and threaten the employees.

 

This new type of crime organization is not easy to be detected, because they do not directly commit the crime. The police investigate how wide the crime groups are organized, establishing joint investigation teams beyond border of prefectural police.

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