MANILA -- Metropolitan Police Department officers on Tuesday arrested two Japanese men suspected of involvement in a recent string of robberies in Japan, with the arrest officially taking place aboard a deportation flight to Narita Airport from the Philippines, which had transferred the men to Japanese custody.
The arrests were for suspected theft as part of an earlier fraud case in which the two are also suspects. The two men, Kiyoto Imamura and Toshiya Fujita, both 38, had been detained at an immigration facility in the Philippines and arrived in Japan in the afternoon.
Philippine authorities transported them from the Bicutan detention center in a Manila suburb at about 8:30 a.m., entering Ninoy Aquino International Airport about 30 minutes later. Both men wore T-shirts and shorts. The flight carrying them departed at about 11 a.m.
