Police investigator suspected of peeping into neighbor's home

FUKUOKA -- A police investigator arrested for sneaking onto the balcony of a neighboring apartment is suspected of peeping into the victim's home, investigators said.

Kozo Yanaga, 31, a senior officer at Fukuoka Prefectural Police's second investigation division, stands accused of trespassing. Prefectural police are grilling him over the motives for his crime.

Yanaga sneaked onto the balcony of a public servant's apartment next to his room in Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, on a number of occasions between the night of Feb. 24 and the morning of Feb. 26, local police said.

The civil servant in his 30s and his wife reported to police that a beer can containing cigarette butts was abandoned on the balcony of their apartment. Prefectural police arrested Yanaga after matching his DNA with that on the cigarette butts.

Yanaga is single and lived in the apartment alone, according to the prefectural police's inspection office.

警官侵入：隣家のベランダに　のぞき見目的か　福岡

　福岡県警監察官室は３日、自宅マンションの隣室のベランダに侵入したとして、福岡市東区貝塚団地、県警捜査２課巡査長、弥永耕三容疑者（３１）を住居侵入容疑で逮捕した。監察官室はのぞき目的だった可能性もあるとみて調べている。

　調べでは、弥永容疑者は２月２４日午後７時～２６日午前１１時ごろ、マンション４階自室の隣に住む３０代の男性公務員方のベランダに侵入した疑い。公務員夫婦が２７日夜、「ベランダに覚えのないたばこの吸い殻が入ったビール缶が置いてある」と福岡・東署に届け出た。その後の捜査で吸い殻などに付着した唾液などのＤＮＡ型が弥永容疑者のものと一致した。監察官室によると、弥永容疑者は独身で１人暮らし。

Mainichi

March 4, 2008