Japanese Man Scales 6-Storey Building To Steal Pokemon & Yu-gi-oh! Cards Worth RM37,502

A 28-year-old Japanese man was arrested after he allegedly broke into a six-storey building to steal Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, worth about one million yen (RM37,502).

According to Japanese daily Mainichi, Kensuke Nakanishi, a resident of Tokyo’s Toshima Ward had apparently gone to the building rooftop and fixed a rope to a railing on the roof and let it hang down.

He then climbed down about five metres using the rope without any safety harness and broke into the store’s window with a tool. He became a suspect after being spotted in video footage from security cameras near the store.

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Investigators from Ikebukuro Police Station said that the incident took place at about 5am on 23 March in the Higashi-Ikebukuro neighbourhood.

They said Nakanishi had stolen about 80 Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! worth about one million yen (RM37,502), as well as about 260,000 yen (RM9,750) in cash from the store.

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Nakanishi later admitted to the allegations and said that he did it to “pay off a debt”.

He was also quoted by police saying, “I was in the rock climbing club in high school, so I wasn’t afraid of heights.”

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