2,240 police, 460 patrol cars, copter mobilized for car chase in Osaka
OSAKA — Police on Thursday arrested a wanted man after a two-hour car chase that involved 2,240 officers, 460 police cars and one helicopter. Hirofumi Fukuda, 27, who had been wanted for assaulting police officers on Jan 21, was arrested after a chase through central Osaka. Around 11 a.m., police received an emergency call saying that a car was driving recklessly, ignoring traffic lights. When a patrol car approached the vehicle in question, it took off.
Police were mobilized throughout the area and a helicopter called in. The chase ended when Fukuda’s car crashed into a bridge column. He sustained light injuries but no one else was injured in the chase.
Source: Japan Today
Gangster’s wife said she got police relative to kill Fukuoka man in Philippines
Fukuoka Prefectural Police have set up a joint investigation control center at Nishi Police Station to probe the disappearance of Shinichiro Takagi, 29, a company employee from Fukuoka’s Nishi-ku.
Takagi has not been seen since he left a hotel in Manila at around 9 p.m. on May 11 last year. Takagi was supposed to stay at the hotel for a few days after he checked in there earlier the same day.
Prefectural police had earlier dispatched investigators to Manila to probe the case after the 29-year-old Filipino wife of a gangster, with whom Takagi had been acquainted, told investigators that she asked a relative who is a police officer in the Philippines to kill Takagi.
Investigators will further question the yakuza and his wife and may press murder charges against them. The pair has been indicted over a false marriage scam.