TOCHIGI (TR) – Following last week’s tire-theft incident in Nikko City, Fuji News Network (June 17) reports on another case that took place in Ashikaga City.
In video footage shot just after 2 a.m. on June 9, the thief arrives at a residence wearing a short-sleeve shirt and sandals.
He parks his car with the lights on, peers around the back of a block wall and looks around. He then reaches for the tire at his feet and loads it into the car with ease.
The owner of the property was asleep at the time.
All that was stolen was a single tire with a wheel that had been removed from a car for repair.
This was not the first incident at the residence. Six days before, the owner lost three tires and wheels. The value of the four tires and wheels is around 20,000 yen.
“He’s a male foreigner, I think,” the owner says. “Slim, standing between 165 and 170 centimeters tall. Aged in his late 30s.”
Police are searching for the culprits, suspecting that the same person was behind both thefts in Ashikaga.
