A rape suspect who escaped from an Osaka Prefecture police station earlier this week may have snatched purses from several people since going on the run, investigative sources said Thursday. After Junya Hida, 30, disappeared from Tondabayashi police station in the suburbs of Osaka on Sunday evening, a series of…
A rape suspect who escaped from an Osaka Prefecture police station earlier this week may have snatched purses from several people since going on the run, investigative sources said Thursday.
After Junya Hida, 30, disappeared from Tondabayashi police station in the suburbs of Osaka on Sunday evening, a series of purse snatchings by a man on a black minibike have been reported in the vicinity every evening through Wednesday.
Given that Hida was also indicted over similar night-time thefts using a minibike in May, the police suspect he is taking money again.
Around the time he fled on Sunday, a black minibike was stolen in the Osaka city of Matsubara, where Hida resided.
Hida has been indicted on charges of rape, theft and robbery resulting in injury and was served a fresh arrest warrant last week on a charge of attempted rape.
