Police officer nabbed for drunkenly assaulting train station employee

SAITAMA -- A police officer who tried to pass through a train station ticket gate without presenting a ticket, and then brushed aside a station employee who tried to stop him has been arrested, police said.

Fumio Terashita, 48, an assistant inspector in the organized criminal control division at Fukagawa Police Station, was arrested for assault.

Police said that Terashita tried to pass through a manned ticket gate at JR Kawagoe Station without presenting a ticket at about 12 a.m. on Wednesday. When a 19-year-old station employee tried to stop him, Terashita shook off the employee's right hand and kept going, prompting other station employees to apprehend the officer.

Terashita was reportedly drunk at the time.

"There's no doubt that I shook off his hand," police quoted the assistant inspector as saying.

Investigators said Terashita was on his way home at the time. He was reportedly carrying cash and a Suica train pass.

警視庁警部補：駅員に暴行容疑で逮捕　埼玉・川越

　３０日午前０時ごろ、埼玉県川越市脇田本町のＪＲ川越駅改札口で、同県吉川市高富１、警視庁深川署刑事組織犯罪対策課警部補、寺下文雄容疑者（４８）が有人改札口を切符を出さずに通過しようとした。制止した男性駅員（１９）の右手を振り払って通ろうとしたため、他の駅員らが寺下容疑者を取り押さえ、川越署員が暴行容疑で現行犯逮捕した。酒に酔っており「手を振り払ったのは間違いない」と話しているという。

　調べでは、寺下容疑者は帰宅途中で、「車内で寝込んだ」と供述している。現金やＩＣカード乗車券「Ｓｕｉｃａ」は持っていたという。