Saitama man indicted over 1,000 purse-snatching cases, netting him Y80 mil
SAITAMA —
Police on Tuesday indicted a 32-year-old man on suspicion of having committed more than 1,000 purse-snatchings over 10 years. Among the robberies police attribute to Yuki Matsuyama, unemployed and of no fixed address, is one in which a 70-year-old woman was robbed in Warabi in December 2002 of a handbag containing 1.4 million yen.
A search of Matsuyama’s temporary lodging, police say, yielded written memos in which a number of crimes are described. Matsuyama is believed to have stolen as much as 80 million yen over 10 years in more than 1,000 thefts, primarily in the Nanbu area of Saitama Prefecture. “I spent the stolen money on pachinko, horse-racing and sex,” investigators quoted him as saying.
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fatloser
The NPA should be proud of their ten years of intensive efforts at catching this snatcher finally paying off!!
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timeon
I'm curious how they caught him? did he turned himself in? no light on his bicycle?
non-related curiosity: what's a 70 year old granny doing with so much cash? Especially Warabi, which is very close to Nishi-Kawaguchi, heaven of prostitution, pimps and yaks
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romulus3
I see, so the cops made him write it down and then submitted it as evidence. This stinks of forced confession. 1000 snatchings? No way. Lazy cops just want to pin everything on one guy.
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SimondB
“I spent the stolen money on pachinko, horse-racing and sex,” investigators quoted him as saying, "add the rest I just squandered" he added.
Apologies to GB
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meanmutha
"I spent the stolen money on pachinko, horse-racing and sex,”
pretty much what most bums do here...
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bamboohat
What a maroon. I mean, I can see taking a few trips to the track, as it can be fairly entertaining. But Pachinko? C'mon!
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norinrad21
This dude has been around for 10 years and they just caught him?
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some14some
"I spent the stolen money of pachinko, horse-racing and sex", set him free as he has contributed all what he 'earned' and kept economy moving.
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usaexpat
He got away with it for ten years at the rate of 100 per year? That's quite amazing isn't it. In days gone by I would have said "he should have invested the money so he could retire from crime before being nabbed" But with the way the market is: pachinko, booze, and sex was a better plan. At least he had fun the last 10 years. His next 10 probably will be a lot less fun, I hope he knew that in the end crime doesn't pay.
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ca1ic0cat
yeah, that just seems to be too much. Ten years of purse snatching? Seems a little unlikely.
But if nobody was physically harmed I bet the sentence will be much less than ten years, especially if remorse is shown.
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romulus3
no. you are just in innocent land with candy and j-girls dancing about.
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kjunluc2
****I wonder if he kept to a schedule. Top of the pecking order in his chosen profession; no one to bow to or kowtow to. Pretty good salary. Work hard, play hard.
He could have opened a purse shop as a side vocation.
Damn! Ten years is a long time to get away with crap like that. This oughta qualify as a capital crime. If they'd check back they'd probably find that some old ladies had an early demise from shock. I suspect elderly ladies made up most of the victims of this cowardly bastard.
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KitsuneYoukai
He documented his bad deeds; how idiotic.
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OgieDoggie
Well thank goodness he didn't just WASTE all that money.
The woman with 1.4 mil yen...am a little surprise that a certain un-named gang from that area didn't come looking for him to get THEIR money back.
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Harry_Gatto
I wonder what he did with the bags?
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