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FUGITIVES

Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 19, 2019
Car used by fugitive to escape arrest Wednesday found in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture
A car used by a fugitive was found late Wednesday night near Tokyo, hours after the man convicted of assault and theft brandished a knife and fled in the vehicle from police and prosecutors trying to take him into custody, officials said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 3, 2018
Osaka fugitive spun web of lies and pulled off series of thefts to masquerade as cycle tourist while on the run: police
A 30-year-old man, who was at large for nearly seven weeks after escaping from a police station in Osaka Prefecture in mid-August, masqueraded as a cycle tourist, spun a web of lies and stole basic goods including clothes and a bicycle, investigative sources said Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 16, 2018
Shikoku prison escapee stymies 6,600 police on small island in Seto Inland Sea
Police in Hiroshima and Ehime prefectures have been pursuing the man on Mukaishima Island since he escaped from Matsuyama Prison on April 8.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 19, 2017
Japanese woman accused of defrauding dozens extradited from Thailand
A Japanese woman wanted by Kumamoto police for allegedly defrauding dozens of people out of millions of yen was arrested Wednesday after being extradited from Thailand.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 20, 2016
DNA ties fugitive Red Army Faction trio to failed '15 armored car robbery in Germany
Three members of the defunct radical leftist Red Army Faction carried out a failed armed robbery last year to finance their life on the run, German prosecutors believe.
JAPAN
Dec 3, 2014
Pyongyang abduction investigation panel met with Red Army skyjacking fugitives; show of 'sincerity' seen
North Korea's special committee reinvestigating Pyongyang's abductions of Japanese nationals decades ago held a meeting last month with Red Army Faction fugitives who hijacked a Japan Airlines airplane in 1970 and defected to the North, one of the former members said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 17, 2014
Revealed: N. Korea hideout of Red Army Faction fugitives
Photographs have emerged of a building where four leftist Red Army Faction extremists who hijacked a Japan Airlines airplane and defected to North Korea in 1970 are living.

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