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Japan Arrests Man in Iwate Twice for Hamster Massacres
Police say the suspect recorded the killings on his smartphone and exchanged messages planning the acts, and two women were also arrested.
- On Monday, police in Iwate, Japan, arrested a 36-year-old high school staff member for the "gratuitous killings" of about 30 hamsters in late March at "love hotels" with a 20-year-old woman.
- Authorities first detained the suspect in July regarding the separate killing of around 20 hamsters in February with a 19-year-old woman, prompting expanded investigation into the staffer's history.
- Police confiscated the suspect's smartphone containing videos of the acts and text messages planning the killings, which violated animal protection laws, according to Hiroyuki Nasu, senior police official in Miyako, Iwate.
- Both women involved in the separate incidents were also arrested for collusion, Nasu said, as officials continue investigating whether the man committed other crimes beyond the roughly 50 hamsters killed in total.
- Law enforcement officials are currently examining whether the high school staff member committed additional similar acts, with the investigation ongoing as authorities process evidence from incidents in Iwate Prefecture.
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A Japanese man may have killed about thirty hamsters, and police found videos and incriminating messages on his phone.
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He had two female accomplices in committing the act inside a half-board hotel.
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