Man Held After Demanding Y20 Mil In Shopping Mall Bomb Plot – Japan
national | 7/24/2008 | no comments
Police on Wednesday arrested a 45-year-old man for threatening to set off bombs in shopping malls in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, unless a local FM radio station paid him 20 million yen.
Masato Takato, 45, allegedly sent an email at 1 p.m. on Tuesday to Shizuoka FM, in which he said that he had planted bombs at shopping malls and supermarkets. According to police, he was found at the car park of a supermarket in the city at 6 p.m. after he was identified from his cell phone email address.
Police said Takato had no explosive items at the time of his arrest. He has denied the allegations, saying, “I sent the email by mistake.”
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