A 34-year-old man has been arrested for breaking and entering into many private residences on approximately 80 separate occasions, police said Wednesday. The suspect in question allegedly befriended a number of other individuals on a website and formed a group for the sole purpose of stealing and other illegal activities.
According to police, Hirofumi Takei, a construction worker from Yashio City, Saitama Prefecture, was charged with breaking into an apartment in Ichikawa City with his 33-year-old accomplice Takashi Motomura who police had already apprehended, in January.
The two suspects stole from the apartment approximately 30,000 yen, Fuji TV reported. Takei has disputed the charges, saying that all he had done was drive the car that transported the burglars.
Police said they have learned that Takei befriended seven other individuals online last October, and with the group, carried out 80 similar jobs within the Tokyo and Chiba areas.
Officials estimate that the total amount stolen by the group may exceed 13 million yen.
© Japan Today
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CPK Fukuchiyama 2 Australia
So 7 idiots people stole approximately 13,000,000 yen in over 80 break & enters.....That works out at less than 24,000 yen each per crime. Comparing the time they will spend in jail they would have made much better money getting normal job.....Most importantly the stress they caused the victims is not easy to forgive.
commanteer
Thanks for that accounting. In general, criminals are quite stupid - which makes them dangerous. But then we don't hear as much about the few exceptions who actually have a brain.
borscht
CPK,
Or a little less than 2 million each total or 250,000 a month. I wonder how much Takei made per month as a construction worker. I'm guess a bit more than 250,000.
Monozuki
I thought construction workers were not used to tinkering with a computer, I mean in Japan, compared to computer geeks and such.
But come to think of it, nowadays every Tom, Dick and Harry has got an Internet-enabled smartphone being able to access to the Internet. Yes, it really makes sense.