<figure id="attachment_449826" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-449826" style="width: 713px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="43ca1ad2"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/12/d29f3865dd0244eb0aaf2f259b371d69.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-449826" class="wp-caption-text">Police arrested four people for ordering the &#8220;Metropolitan Area Robbery. Among them, the suspect Hiroto Fukuchi, who is believed to be the leader of the group, was arrested at &#8230;&#8230;</figcaption></figure>
<h2> He was arrested in November last year for another assault case, which came to light.</h2>
 Highly paid&#8221; and &#8220;white collar&#8221;
 The four arrested were said to have made such posts on social networking sites, recruiting people to carry out the robberies and instructing them to do so.
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 In 2012, a series of wide-area robberies by black market robbers occurred in the Tokyo metropolitan area. The arrested suspects, all in their 20s, are Koto Fukuchi (26), Takuya Saito (26), Karoula Murakami (27), and Shota Watanabe (26).
 The series of 18 wide-area robberies occurred in four prefectures (Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, and Saitama) between August and November &#8217;24. A total of 55 people have been arrested so far, including 38 perpetrators and collectors. The damage amounted to more than 20 million yen.
 The four men mentioned above told the robbers that they were hesitant to commit the robbery,
 They said, &#8220;We know your address. I know where you live, and I will kidnap your family.
 They are said to have encouraged the robbers to commit the robbery by threatening to kidnap their families.
 They also threatened to &#8220;bend the fingers of their hands backwards as hard as they could,
 They also threatened to &#8220;bend the fingers of your hands backwards as hard as you can.
 He also gave them diabolical instructions such as, &#8220;Bend the fingers of your hands backwards as hard as you can.
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 Fukuchi is said to be the leader of the instructor in this case.
 Fukuchi was arrested in November of last year for another assault case, and traces of a smartphone seized from him were found to indicate that he had instructed the robbers to use a black market byte. The arrests were based on completely unrelated cases,&#8221; said a reporter from the society department of a national newspaper.
 Fukuchi and the other suspects called themselves &#8220;Soseki Natsume,&#8221; &#8220;Kingfisher,&#8221; &#8220;Sasaki,&#8221; and other names, and gave instructions via a highly anonymous communication application.
 The joint task force of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and others began investigating around this summer, and they wanted to arrest them by the end of this year at all costs. The number of smartphones seized from the perpetrators of each of the incidents exceeded 750, and thorough analysis led to the arrest of the instructing officers.
 The arrests of the directing officers were diabolical, but the leader of the group, Fukuchi, had a previous conviction for manslaughter and other crimes.
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<h2>Night after night, his mother drove around town looking for him.</h2>
 Fukuchi was born in March 1999 in Ibaraki Prefecture. He spent his elementary school years in Hitachiota City in the northeastern part of the prefecture, and also left his junior high school for a local school and entered an agricultural high school in the prefecture. He dropped out of the agricultural high school after one year and then transferred to a regular high school.
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 When we interviewed a neighbor of the suspect&#8217;s family home, he recalled his past: &#8220;He is the second son of four siblings.
 He was the second son of four siblings and was a naughty boy. He was a show-off and didn&#8217;t listen to what others said. People around him called him Hiroto-kun, and as soon as he entered elementary school, he started taking kendo lessons. He was athletic, so although he was a strong kendo player, he was very self-motivated, and I was impressed by the way his mother often yelled at him.&#8221;
 At the time, the elementary school that Fukuchi attended was a small school with less than 10 students per class, and the school would later be integrated. Although he did not engage in violent behavior, he liked to make fun of others and was said to tease his quiet classmates excessively.
 The mother of a son who was a classmate of Fukuchi&#8217;s in junior high school said in an interview,
 She said, &#8220;When I entered junior high school, I was a member of the kendo club and sometimes won prizes in city tournaments. He was also the head of the club, and I got the impression that he was well-liked by others as a cheerful and noisy guy. However, from that time on, she began to show signs of rebelliousness toward teachers and other students, and her yanka (mischievous) attitude increased. Many parents instructed their children not to have too much contact with the suspect.
 He was a very rebellious teacher and became more and more naughty.
 Then came a turning point. One of his classmates said, &#8220;Hiroto changed after high school.
 &#8220;Hiroto changed after high school.
 &#8220;Hiroto changed after high school,&#8221; one of his classmates testified.
 On June 28, 2003, the suspect dropped out of an agricultural high school and transferred to a regular high school. Fukuchi dropped out of an agricultural high school and transferred to a regular high school. He was in his second year of high school.
 In the parking lot of a supermarket in Hitachiota City, a male student in his third year of high school at the time was summoned by a group of suspects and beaten to death. Four juveniles were arrested on suspicion of inflicting injury and death, and the Fukuchi suspects were tried as the main suspects in a case with the same criminal penalties as the adults. It was decided that he would be sent to a juvenile prison, and the sentence was between three and five years in prison (with a proposed sentence of between four and six years)&#8221; (source from a TV station).
 According to a reporter for a weekly magazine who knew about the incident at the time, the suspect punched and kicked the boy in the face and also hit him with rocks, etc. The deceased victim&#8217;s face was swollen as if he was a different person.
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 According to the aforementioned classmate,
 When he entered high school, Hiroto&#8217;s friendships suddenly took a turn for the worse, and he began to associate with a group of delinquents who ran wild and drank alcohol. He was not coming home at all, so his mother would drive around the city at night looking for him.
 He says, &#8220;I was a very good student.
 At the same time he turned 20, Fukuchi was released from juvenile prison on parole as a model prisoner.
 After his release, he worked for a real estate company in the prefecture, and after his probation ended after about a year, he moved to Tokyo. He told people that he was going to work as a bar manager, even though he was only hired. However, his work at the bar did not last long, and in 2009 he committed a fraud case in which he swindled a woman in her 60s (living in Yamanashi Prefecture) out of 2.4 million yen in cash, which became a hot topic among us, saying, &#8220;I knew he was not rehabilitated.
 (A fellow classmate) &#8220;The latest incident has confirmed our suspicions about Fukuchi.
 He pretended to be &#8216;decent&#8217; in front of his parents, but he is still a hopeless person. I am not surprised to hear about this incident. He would do anything. He was always the one to cause incidents in the past,&#8221; said a classmate.
 The police believe that Fukuchi and the other suspects are guilty of many other crimes, and they will pursue them one by one over time.

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 Four men were arrested for their role in a series of wide-area robberies committed by a black market jobber in the Tokyo metropolitan area in 2004. The suspect, Hiroto Fukuchi, who was the leader among them, has been arrested in the past and ......

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