窃盗未遂容疑でベトナム人男逮捕　山あい民家強盗への関与捜査―栃木県警

　福島、栃木、群馬、長野各県の山あいの民家で相次ぐ緊縛強盗事件を巡り、栃木県警は１５日、同県日光市の事件被害者名義のキャッシュカードを使って現金を引き出そうとしたとして、窃盗未遂容疑で、ベトナム人の住所不詳、自称内装工ホアン・フー・ホア容疑者（２５）を逮捕した。容疑を否認しているという。
　また、同容疑者と一緒にいたベトナム人の住所不定、無職マイ・ヴァン・シー容疑者（２３）も出入国管理法違反（不法残留）容疑で逮捕した。栃木県警は、群馬、長野両県警と合同捜査班を設置。一連の強盗事件への関与についても調べる方針。
　ホアン容疑者の逮捕容疑は４月３０日午前５時ごろ、栃木県佐野市のコンビニのＡＴＭで、日光市の男性名義のキャッシュカードを使って現金を引き出そうとした疑い。男性は同日午前０時ごろ、自宅で外国人とみられる男２人からネクタイで手足を縛られ、現金やキャッシュカードなどを奪われていた。
　その後、長野、群馬両県でも同様の強盗被害があり、今月１４日には、福島県南会津町藤生の民家に男数人が押し入り、１人暮らしの６０代女性から現金を奪った。女性は粘着テープで手首などを縛られた。男らは「カネ、カネ」など片言の日本語を話していたという。（2024/05/16-01:34）

Japanese police are investigating possible links between recent serial robberies in the country's mountainous areas and two Vietnamese men who have been arrested on other charges, according to investigative sources.
   On Wednesday, the Tochigi prefectural police department arrested Hoang Huu Hoa, 25, who claims to be an interior decorator, on suspicion of attempted theft and Mai Van Sy, 23, an unemployed man who was with Hoang, for alleged illegal stay in Japan in violation of the immigration control law. Hoang denied the charges against him.
   The department set up a joint investigation team with the Gunma and Nagano prefectural police departments to look into whether the two Vietnamese men were involved in the spate of robberies that targeted houses in sparsely populated mountainous areas of prefectures including Tochigi, Gunma and Nagano.
   Hoang was arrested for allegedly attempting to withdraw cash from an automated teller machine at a convenience store in Sano, Tochigi, eastern Japan, using a cash card belonging to a man from Nikko in the same prefecture around 5 a.m. on April 30. The Nikko resident had his hands and feet tied up with neckties and was robbed of cash and a cash card by two men, believed to be foreigners, at his home around midnight on April 29.
   The incident was followed by similar robbery cases in Nagano in central Japan and Gunma in eastern Japan. On Tuesday, several men broke into a house in Minamiaizu in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, and robbed a resident in her 60s of cash. The woman, who lives alone, was tied up with adhesive tapes around her wrists and other parts of her body. The men are said to have spoken in broken Japanese, saying "kane, kane" (money, money).