Four suspected senior members of a group that organized scams and burglaries in Japan from the Philippines were served fresh arrest warrants Tuesday for allegedly planning the fatal robbery of a 90-year-old woman’s home earlier this year, investigative sources said.
Kiyoto Imamura, 39, is believed to have ordered the break-in at the home of Kinuyo Oshio in the city of Komae, in western Tokyo, in January along with the three others.
The Metropolitan Police Department believes the four men remotely coordinated the robbery via an encrypted messaging app while being held at an immigration detention facility in Manila. They were deported to Japan from the Philippines earlier this year.
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