{"id":176596,"date":"2018-08-14T02:09:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T06:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=176596"},"modified":"2018-08-14T02:09:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T06:09:58","slug":"japanese-suspect-steals-sneakers-flees-police-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/14\/japanese-suspect-steals-sneakers-flees-police-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese suspect steals sneakers, flees police station"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lawyers are asked to notify duty officers when they leave. (File Photo<\/a>: Paolo Ramo\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TOKYO \u2014 Japanese police have launched a massive manhunt for a robbery and rape suspect who fled from a police station after reportedly stealing an officer’s sneakers.<\/p>\n

Junya Hida fled Sunday from a consultation room at the Tondabayashi police station in Osaka after meeting his lawyer, and was still at large a day later, local police said Monday.<\/p>\n

Police placed the 30-year-old suspect on a nationwide wanted list and deployed 3,000 officers to search for him.<\/p>\n

Hida, who was not handcuffed, apparently forced open an acrylic panel that separated detainees from an area for visitors and then escaped, police said.<\/p>\n

Hida reportedly stole a policeman’s sneakers before escaping from the second-floor consultation room, leaving behind his sandals. He had been detained at the police station for two months on charges of rape, robbery and other crimes, officials said.<\/p>\n

Duty officers, who customarily are not present during consultations, were unaware of his disappearance until they checked the room almost two hours after the lawyer left.<\/p>\n

Lawyers are asked to notify duty officers when they leave. The lawyer left Sunday without telling anyone.<\/p>\n

Police told neighbourhood schools and residents to lock their windows and stay vigilant.<\/p>\n

Japan has a relatively low crime rate and prison escapes are rare. A prison break by a convicted thief in April triggered a large-scale manhunt for three weeks in western Japan until he was recaptured.<\/p>\n

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