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05-16-2004, 07:07 PM
A man who made nearly 190 prank calls to police, including one in which he threatened to blow up the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) with a 4-ton bomb has been arrested, police said.
The man, Junji Furukawa, 43, was arrested Friday on suspicion of obstructing officers from carrying out their duties after he made the prank calls. He has reportedly admitted having phoned police.
"I was stressed out with work and I got irritated," police quoted him as saying.
In addition to calling the MPD headquarters 189 times, Furukawa reportedly also made numerous calls to the Imperial Household Agency, the Japanese Communist Party headquarters, the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, New Tokyo International Airport at Narita, and other organizations.
Investigators said that Furukawa called the main number for the MPD at about 11 p.m. on March 23, saying, "I've planted a 4-ton bomb. It's going to go off in four minutes. Get out quick."
After receiving the call the MPD deployed over 50 riot police and night guards to search the MPD building and its surroundings for about 30 minutes, but they didn't find anything.
Furukawa reportedly told police that he thought it would be fun to cause chaos.
"I was drinking. It was fun to see things thrown into confusion."
Furukawa phoned the MPD from his cell phone several times on the day he made the bomb threat, making obscene comments to a female worker at the department, police said. (Compiled from Mainichi and wire reports, Japan, May 15, 2004)
Source (http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040515p2a00m0dm002000c.html)
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The man, Junji Furukawa, 43, was arrested Friday on suspicion of obstructing officers from carrying out their duties after he made the prank calls. He has reportedly admitted having phoned police.
"I was stressed out with work and I got irritated," police quoted him as saying.
In addition to calling the MPD headquarters 189 times, Furukawa reportedly also made numerous calls to the Imperial Household Agency, the Japanese Communist Party headquarters, the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, New Tokyo International Airport at Narita, and other organizations.
Investigators said that Furukawa called the main number for the MPD at about 11 p.m. on March 23, saying, "I've planted a 4-ton bomb. It's going to go off in four minutes. Get out quick."
After receiving the call the MPD deployed over 50 riot police and night guards to search the MPD building and its surroundings for about 30 minutes, but they didn't find anything.
Furukawa reportedly told police that he thought it would be fun to cause chaos.
"I was drinking. It was fun to see things thrown into confusion."
Furukawa phoned the MPD from his cell phone several times on the day he made the bomb threat, making obscene comments to a female worker at the department, police said. (Compiled from Mainichi and wire reports, Japan, May 15, 2004)
Source (http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040515p2a00m0dm002000c.html)
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