Fresh arrest warrants were served on Sept. 12 in connection with a robbery-murder in western Tokyo in January that was traced to a Japanese crime ring operating in the Philippines, police said.
A senior member of a scam group based in the Philippines, who used the name “Luffy,” was re-arrested in connection with a burglary at a thrift shop in Chiba Prefecture, police said on July 20.
Two men were indicted Thursday for robbery resulting in death after a 90-year-old woman died in western Tokyo in January in what is suspected to have been part of a string of burglaries seen across the country in recent years. Rikuto Nagata, 21, and Hiroyuki Nomura, 52, were arrested on…
The two men were arrested on suspicion of robbery-murder after Kinuyo Oshio, 90, was found dead at her home in Komae with her hands tied and head bleeding.