A junior high school student from Tochigi Prefecture was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of robbing a Tokyo jewelry store of Rolex watches worth about 12.6 million yen, police said.
The 14-year-old boy, whose name is being withheld under the Juvenile Law, threatened a clerk at K-1 in Ginza with a model gun and told the clerk to give him expensive watches and money.
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