The Metropolitan Police Department has issued an arrest warrant for a 19-year-old boy seen in YouTube videos shoplifting and poking toothpicks into food packages at supermarkets and convenience stores. Needles have also been found in food.
Police said Thursday the unemployed Tokyo resident is suspected of several crimes including theft and the fraudulent obstruction of business.
Some of videos uploaded to YouTube in the past month show him shoplifting. One of the first, uploaded on Dec. 16, shows the teenager bragging about how he stole a drink "off a store shelf with such ease." On Dec. 21, he shared a video titled "a shoplifting lecture."