Overview
- Shizuoka Prefectural Police arrested three Kanagawa-based teenagers on suspicion of trespassing and robbery resulting in injury.
- The suspects allegedly entered the couple’s Nagaizumi residence late on Dec. 22, taped their mouths and wrists, and took about ¥10 million in cash.
- Investigators say the boys are acquaintances with no prior connection to the victims and that they fled the scene by car.
- Police believe additional accomplices likely took part, including a getaway driver and an organizer who provided instructions, and they are probing a tokuryu link.
- Authorities have not disclosed whether the suspects admitted the allegations; the victims, both in their 80s, were injured, and the 83-year-old man’s injuries were described as slight.