2 teens arrested over gold bar robbery in Tokyo
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According to the Metropolitan Police Department, the victims said the gold bars weigh approximately 2kg and are worth about 53 million yen (S$426,000).
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TOKYO - Two 19-year-old men have been arrested for allegedly robbing four men of a backpack containing gold bars and injuring them on the street in Tokyo in April, police said on May 25.
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, the victims said the gold bars weigh approximately 2kg and are worth about 53 million yen (S$426,000).
The suspects, a man from Fukuyama in western Japan’s Hiroshima Prefecture and another whose residence is unknown, were taken into custody on May 23 on suspicion of robbery resulting in injury.
They allegedly conspired to assault the four men in their 40s and 50s on a street in Katsushika Ward on April 28. They punched the men and sprayed them with a tear gas-like substance to steal a backpack. One of the victims suffered a brain bleed as a result of the attack.
Police quoted one of the suspects as saying that he had applied for a “dark part-time job”, and they are investigating the incident as a case involving loosely organised criminal groups known as “Tokuryu”.
They discovered a car believed to have been used in the incident in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo. KYODO NEWS
