Post by Linalin on Feb 5, 2005 1:51:16 GMT -5
SAITAMA — A 25-year-old woman arrested for alleged theft has told police 17.9 million yen in cash found in a Saitama Prefecture ditch last month was money she disposed of after stealing 60 million yen from an ex-boyfriend with two accomplices, police said Friday.
"We stole the money but as the sum was too huge, I got scared and dumped it in a ditch in the city of Hasuda," the police quoted Hiromi Abe, a part-time worker, as saying.
Two of Abe's unemployed male acquaintances, Kazunari Yoshimura, 21, and Tetsuya Mochizuki, 24, have also been arrested on theft charges.
The three broke into the apartment of a 25-year-old man, who Abe used to date, in Saitama's city of Ageo on the evening of Jan 27. They allegedly stole about 60 million yen in cash from a clothing case in the man's closet, the police said.
The three apparently split the money equally and parted soon after the robbery, according to the police.
"I threw the money away in the ditch in Hasuda that same day but cannot remember the exact location since it was dark," Abe was quoted as saying.
The police also quoted Yoshimura, one of the male suspects, as saying that he too had disposed of 36 million yen of the cash in a forest near his home in the town of Ina, also in Saitama.
Yoshimura was quoted as saying the 36 million yen included 16 million of 18 million yen that Mochizuki entrusted to him.
The police did not find the money in the forest but confiscated 1.4 million yen from Mochizuki's home.
The 25-year-old man filed a report with the police after he found the money had disappeared from his closet. The man reportedly returned home three and a half hours after the three suspects stole the money.
The man was earning several million yen a month in commission income from his job with a housing renovation company, according to police sources.
On Jan. 29, a boy found 15 million yen in cash in a ditch in Hasuda. An additional 2 million yen was found the next day in a washing machine dumped in a ditch some 100 meters away.
The police arrested Abe Thursday, and Yoshimura and Mochizuki Friday.
Wow, poor little dude and his baseball team. I hope they at least get like a reward, but damn the chic threw it out because there was too much!? WTH! If she wanted to get rid of it without any evidence (including lots of new furniture and clothes she shouldn't have been able to afford) she should have just made an anonymous donation to a charity...(including the 'Let Lina Not Be Poor/Whoo! College! Fund')
"We stole the money but as the sum was too huge, I got scared and dumped it in a ditch in the city of Hasuda," the police quoted Hiromi Abe, a part-time worker, as saying.
Two of Abe's unemployed male acquaintances, Kazunari Yoshimura, 21, and Tetsuya Mochizuki, 24, have also been arrested on theft charges.
The three broke into the apartment of a 25-year-old man, who Abe used to date, in Saitama's city of Ageo on the evening of Jan 27. They allegedly stole about 60 million yen in cash from a clothing case in the man's closet, the police said.
The three apparently split the money equally and parted soon after the robbery, according to the police.
"I threw the money away in the ditch in Hasuda that same day but cannot remember the exact location since it was dark," Abe was quoted as saying.
The police also quoted Yoshimura, one of the male suspects, as saying that he too had disposed of 36 million yen of the cash in a forest near his home in the town of Ina, also in Saitama.
Yoshimura was quoted as saying the 36 million yen included 16 million of 18 million yen that Mochizuki entrusted to him.
The police did not find the money in the forest but confiscated 1.4 million yen from Mochizuki's home.
The 25-year-old man filed a report with the police after he found the money had disappeared from his closet. The man reportedly returned home three and a half hours after the three suspects stole the money.
The man was earning several million yen a month in commission income from his job with a housing renovation company, according to police sources.
On Jan. 29, a boy found 15 million yen in cash in a ditch in Hasuda. An additional 2 million yen was found the next day in a washing machine dumped in a ditch some 100 meters away.
The police arrested Abe Thursday, and Yoshimura and Mochizuki Friday.
Wow, poor little dude and his baseball team. I hope they at least get like a reward, but damn the chic threw it out because there was too much!? WTH! If she wanted to get rid of it without any evidence (including lots of new furniture and clothes she shouldn't have been able to afford) she should have just made an anonymous donation to a charity...(including the 'Let Lina Not Be Poor/Whoo! College! Fund')
