{"id":1056,"date":"2025-06-20T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T17:30:14","slug":"man-dressed-suspiciously-warm-for-japanese-summer-chased-by-helicopter-and-arrested-for-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=1056","title":{"rendered":"Man dressed suspiciously warm for Japanese summer chased by helicopter and arrested for fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-705497\" src=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/kusaiyoIMGL7069_TP_V4.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>He was drawing too much heat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Just like every year, the past week or so has been as if someone flipped a switch from <a href=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/2025\/06\/03\/studio-ghibli-releases-new-totoro-tenugui-anime-art-for-the-rainy-season-in-japan\/\">non-stop rain<\/a> to relentless heat and summer is suddenly underway in Japan. They say this period of mid-rainy season heat is the worst for our health since the lingering humidity makes it harder for our bodies to properly expel the heat through sweating.<\/p>\n<p>\u25bc The other summer months are <a href=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/2018\/07\/26\/we-cook-a-monjayaki-japanese-pancake-on-the-hood-of-a-car-during-japans-hottest-summer-ever%E3%80%90vid%E3%80%91\/\">hardly a picnic<\/a> either though.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-705495\" src=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/cc-20-1.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whether that\u2019s true or not doesn\u2019t change the fact that the past few days have been a muggy mess in much of Japan and people are doing whatever they can to avoid heat stroke. That is, everyone except one man, apparently, who was spotted by the Saitama Prefectural Police in Kuki City on 17 June.<\/p>\n<p>That morning the temperature was quickly rising but <strong>an officer patrolling the area found it odd that a man in front of Kuki Station was wearing a long-sleeved shirt and vest without even rolling up his sleeves to get a modicum of relief<\/strong>. Finding that suspicious, the officer decided to ask him some questions.<\/p>\n<p>However, the young man refused to answer any questions and tried to walk away but the officer followed him. <strong>The man then got into a taxi, changed to a train, and got on a Shinkansen bullet train<\/strong> for Nagoya to get away from the officer but by this time <strong>several other members of the Saitama Prefectural Police got involved, including a helicopter that was dispatched to follow him<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, back at headquarters, police were checking surveillance footage to see where he had been prior to Kuki Station and cross-referenced it with other investigations. <strong>They found that he had used someone else\u2019s bank card that he acquired illegally to withdraw 500,000 yen (US$344) from an ATM at a convenience store in Kuki City that same morning<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>With that evidence in hand, <strong>an officer who was also aboard the bullet train arrested 27-year-old Sho Hara on the spot for his involvement in <a href=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/2024\/02\/25\/atms-that-automatically-play-anti-fraud-videos-to-people-talking-on-mobile-phones-in-development\/\">special fraud<\/a><\/strong>. Hara is denying the charges and told police, \u201cI know nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some readers of the news expressed amazement in comments that the officer was able to spot a criminal so well, while others took offense that wearing long sleeves in hot weather was considered suspicious behavior.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cAmazing instincts, lol!\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cThey say you should wear long sleeves to keep the sun off your skin.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cThe officer has a detective\u2019s intuition.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cBut I wear long sleeves in the summer.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cMaybe he was hiding tattoos.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cWhat kind of world do we live in where a guy can\u2019t even wear long sleeves in the summer?\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cThat cop deserves a huge bonus.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cA nice Montbell Wickron is actually cooler than short sleeves in the sun.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cHe was probably just a bagman though. They still need to find the people behind it.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cHe probably has \u2018FRAUD MULE\u2019 tattooed on his arm.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cI\u2019m sure it wasn\u2019t just the long sleeves. He was probably acting strange too.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, it probably wasn\u2019t just the fact that he had long sleeves but how he was wearing them. <a href=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/2017\/11\/14\/mr-sato-asks-the-police-how-he-can-avoid-getting-hassled-by-them\/\">As the police taught our reporter Mr. Sato<\/a> when he was questioned by them for being suspicious several times, it\u2019s not a single behavior but a combination of them that sets off a cop\u2019s radar. <strong>A habitual long-sleeve wearer would do so with a certain aplomb, but this guy probably looked particularly uncomfortable as he was but made no effort to change his appearance. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u25bc Here\u2019s a guy who knows how to pull off long sleeves in summer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-705496\" src=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/dabokoikuchi11.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"753\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As we\u2019ve seen before, <strong>police have learned to look out for <a href=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/2018\/10\/16\/real-fashion-police-con-man-arrested-in-tokyo-police-tipped-off-by-ill-fitting-suit\/\">people who look uncomfortable in their own clothing<\/a>, as bagmen for fraud schemes are often given clothing at the last minute in order to impersonate a lawyer, police detective, CEO, etc<\/strong>. Sometimes these clothes are the wrong size or simply don\u2019t match the wearer\u2019s sensibilities, which is a guarantee that an officer will want to ask you what you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n<p>This attention to detail and the fact that they more or less recreated the final scene of <em>Mission: Impossible<\/em> to catch this guy, show that police in Saitama are not playing around when it comes to special fraud.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ntv.co.jp\/category\/society\/9ef26c312cd841ddbf9b6cb18c25996f\">NTV News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/itainews.com\/archives\/2049730.html\">Itai News<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em>Featured image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pakutaso.com\/20180358081post-15639.html\">Pakutaso<\/a><br \/>\nInsert images: \u00a9SoraNews24<br \/>\n\u25cf Want to hear about SoraNews24\u2019s latest articles as soon as they\u2019re published? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RocketNews24En\">Follow us on Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RocketNews24En\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was drawing too much heat. Just like every year, the past week or so has been as if someone flipped a switch from non-stop rain to relentless heat and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}