Police in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, have arrested a 28-year-old man on suspicion of stealing about 3.7 million yen in cash from a house in April.
According to police, the incident occurred on April 25. Shota Konno, a company employee, convinced the elderly woman who lives in the house in Izumi Ward, to let him inside by lying that “a snake had escaped,” local media reported.
While in the house, Konno stole approximately 3.7 million yen in cash and left. Police did not say how long Konno was in the house or how he knew where the woman kept her cash.
Police said Konno was detained after street surveillance camera footage showed his car outside the woman's house at the time of the robbery.
There have been eight cases involving a man pleading to enter homes, using different reasons, in Izumi Ward since April, according to police.
Konno has denied the allegations and was quoted by police as saying, “I can’t remember anything that happened four months ago.”
© Japan Today
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Toshihiro
that's a new one. Stuff like these made me lose my faith in answering the door to strangers. lock him up before he can institutionalize his skills and actually earn a living for it.
Rodney
Good luck entering my home with my big dog.
Newgirlintown
There’s a snake ‘on the loose’?! Sounds like something from a cartoon.
piskian
Land shark!
u_s__reamer
When a snake knocks on your door let your mongoose open it.
Mocheake
He wasn't lying about a snake being on the loose.
602miko
He knows where the money is, it seems his stalker
WA4TKG
Like in the "U.S."; answer the door with a gun...oh wait, you can't do that in Japan
nosuke
You have to very stupid to let a snake joker into your house
garypen
There's a pretty good chance he knew she had a large cache of cash. Hard to believe that he just got lucky.
kaimycahl
LMFAO *"Konno has denied the allegations and was quoted by police as saying, “I can’t remember anything that happened four months ago.”* I am willing to bet he can remember not saying anything for months ago!!!
Mark
Now that is a new one! very clever and stupid since he in custody.
opheliajadefeldt
I am terrified of snakes, for no apparent reason, I cannot even bear to look at one. If any person knocked on my door with this little tale. I would ask them to wait, lock the door, then ask if they wanted it back, alive or dead. But if it were a neighbour and we knew them and of their habits of collecting snakes, it would be different.