Jun 17, 2009 15:36
Popular idol group Hey! Say! JUMP's youngest member Morimoto Ryutaro had a mobile phone stolen. The 17 year old boy who stole it was already caught and arrested on Wednesday by the prefectional kanagawa police.
According to Morimoto,his phone (market value of about 15,000 yen worth) was stolen in the 16 minutes around 11:45 pm Sunday, on the streets of Yokohama, Aoba-ku.
The boy, who was a fan of Morimoto had already followed him since last year, his family did also claim this to the police.
On Tuesday night, Morimoto went to a restaurant near his home to meet that boy and tell him to stop what he's doing. The boy started to threatened Morimoto by saying that he has a knife with him. When Morimoto tried to call his family outside the restaurant the boy asked him who was on the phone, grabbed his phone and ran away.
Credits to Yomiuri.co.jp
(sorry for the abd translation)