KANAGAWA (TR) – Amid a series of robberies in the Tokyo metropolitan area, a woman with two children has been arrested in connection with a robbery-murder case in Yokohama City.
According to the police, Miho Kimoto is among the suspects who conspired to break into the home 75-year-old Hiroharu Goto in Aoba Ward around October 15.
They are then alleged to have assaulted and killed Goto and stolen approximately 200,000 yen in cash.
“I recovered the money obtained from the crime. I deny that I participated in the robbery,” Kimoto said upon her arrest on November 2.
Police said that another suspect, Mazuki Takarada, 22, left the cash in a park toilet in Tokyo, and Kimoto retrieved it.
However, Kimoto did not have the cash upon her apprehension, and the police are investigating the possibility that she gave the money to someone else.
In recent weeks, police have arrested 39 persons in connection with a space of robberies in Tokyo and Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama prefectures. In most of those cases, the suspects were recruited on social media or underground sites via job postings claiming to offer a “high salary.”
