Overview
- Shizuoka Prefectural Police arrested three 17-year-old males from Kanagawa on suspicion of robbery causing injury and trespass.
- Investigators say the trio entered a residence-with-store in Nagaizumi in the early hours of December 22 and took about ¥10 million.
- An elderly couple in their 80s were bound during the break-in, and the 83-year-old husband suffered minor injuries.
- The suspects are a company employee, a plasterer, and a Filipino-national high school student, and police say they knew one another but not the victims.
- Authorities are examining whether additional roles such as a driver or ringleader were involved and are considering a link to an anonymous, fluid criminal group.