Three foreign men arrested on suspicion of stealing copper wire.

Breaking News "Gunma Prefecture".
By "Isesaki FM" AI.

Three foreign men arrested on suspicion of stealing copper wire.

On the 8th, police arrested three Cambodian men, Ock Khemla (29), Chai Sokka (24), and Chai Seng Leng (23), all from Oizumi Town, on suspicion of theft of copper wire from a solar power plant.
The three are suspected of conspiring to steal approximately 1,594 meters of copper cable, worth 6.37 million yen at the time, from a solar power plant in Ibaraki Prefecture at around 6 pm on January 29th.
There were 1,108 cases of copper wire theft from solar power plants in the prefecture last year, causing losses totaling 1.4 billion yen.