Cars, cash stolen from luxury import car dealership in Ibaraki
IBARAKI —
Police said Monday that a luxury import car dealership in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, was robbed Sunday of cars, cash and other belongings worth around 8 million yen.
Police said they received a call from an employee of the dealership reporting the robbery, TV Asahi reported. Police said that a crowbar-like implement was used to wrench open a door on the second floor of the property. According to investigators, a safe containing the previous day’s takings and other items were stolen.
Three Mercedes Benz cars, used as display models, were also stolen from the showroom, TV Asahi reported.
A police spokesperson said the robbery took place between 9 p.m. on Saturday, when the last employee left the premises, and around 9:30 a.m. on Sunday when the first employee arrived.
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Elvensilvan
Security systems, CCTV cameras?
And ... a stolen safe and the getaway car? The thief or thieves seem to know their way around the area.
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Ben_Jackinoff
They might want to confirm that.
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minello7
Looks like the robbery was a cover for the real targets, the cars. The cars will either have been stripped down by now, or intact , and already in containers on there way to ???
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electric2004
According to the book "Confessions of a Yakuza", Tsuchiura is a place where the organization has a foothold.
Maybe because of the new tougher rules, they could not buy their winter tires any more so they needed replacement cars.
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Wurthington
Only Y8 million and 3 Mercedes were stolen. The could not have new cars.
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MaboDofuIsSpicy
Something is wrong with the numbers. Were those very old Benzes?
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Mirai Hayashi
I was thinking the same thing...I would think that MB would be impossible to steal with all of the electronics and security built into them
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Elvensilvan
I would rather think that JT made a logical typo in the news story which actually meant:
cash and other items worth 8 million yen were stolen aside from the 3 cars.
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Elvensilvan
My bad.
3 second hand cars including an MB, a mini-cooper (about 5.3 million yen), the safe and some precious metals (about 1.5 million yen) and about 1.4 million yen cash has been reported stolen.
Old cars indeed.
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Ron20
I think robbers might having idea of those things kept in luxury cars. Actually such types of cars have a good security to avoid such things.
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