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A 29-Year-Old Taiwanese Man Was Arrested in Yamagata Prefecture, Tsuruoka City, on Suspicion of Defrauding a Woman in Her 70s of 1.45 Million Yen in Cash by Posing as a Police Officer

A man has been arrested on suspicion of impersonating a police officer and defrauding someone of cash. The man arrested on suspicion of fraud is Lu Wen-ching, a 29-year-old unemployed man of Taiwanese origin with no fixed address. Lu and an accomplice are suspected of making multiple phone calls to a woman in her 70s in Tsuruoka City from October 5th, impersonating police officers and other officials, and defrauding her of 1.45 million yen in ca…
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A man has been arrested on suspicion of impersonating a police officer and defrauding someone of cash. The man arrested on suspicion of fraud is Lu Wen-ching, a 29-year-old unemployed man of Taiwanese origin with no fixed address. Lu and an accomplice are suspected of making multiple phone calls to a woman in her 70s in Tsuruoka City from October 5th, impersonating police officers and other officials, and defrauding her of 1.45 million yen in ca…

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FNN.jpプライムオンライン broke the news on Tuesday, October 27, 2026.
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