Ichihashi CAPTURED!!!!

[eddie]

Don't US Marshalls ferry fugitives back to their proper jurisdictions on passenger flights?

had u seen passenger 57 you'd know that's true!

[Mike Oxlong]

I always bet on black!:wink:

[osopolar]

I always bet on black!:wink:

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Mike Oxlong again.

golf clap.

[sublight]

Don't US Marshalls ferry fugitives back to their proper jurisdictions on passenger flights?

Yes, but they usually don't go out of their way to turn it into a complete circus like the J-cops seem to.

[Greji]

Yes, but they usually don't go out of their way to turn it into a complete circus like the J-cops seem to.

Now why would you say that about Japan's finest Sub? I mean just because they'll searched high and low for this scrout for over two years without the slightest idea where he was (Shinjuku 2chome, kaigai, dead, etc.,). Then they still didn't catch him until someone called them and said the dipshit was seated at the Ferry Terminal (probably gave them the seat number that he was sitting in) waiting for a garbage scow to Okinawa and even with that they almost missed him. I mean perhaps they are just a little unlucky with their investigations, especially since he wasn't an fg and didn't have a bicycle to check on...

[Mulboyne]

A guy from TBS is being held for breaking through the police cordon to get a better shot:

[Mike Oxlong]

I'm surprised the TBS man didn't break away from the cops and vanish into thin air...

[eddie]

I'm surprised the TBS man didn't break away from the cops and vanish into thin air...

and he had shoes!

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

[quote="eddie"]and he had shoes! ]

That is hilarious!!!

I feel sorry for the TBS guy. And I blame the cops for his transgression. Why can't they supply mugshots of criminals, as happens in normal countries? That would stop a lot of the mad frenzy among the media witnessed during Ichihashi's transportation.
It's certainly in the public interest to be given a view of the suspect in this case, especially considering the public's role in his capture. The cops had no qualms using the media to try and track him down after he shoelessly slipped through the fingers. The cops should be more transparent. And that would stop media people like the TBS guy from breaking the rules.

[Western All Stars]

After seeing this picture I was surprised that someone was able to recognize him just passing by at the ferry terminal. Besides putting on some weight, it looks like he some work done on his nose and eyebrows. Maybe the lips too.
Is it just me or did he forget to shave half his face in this picture?

[Samurai_Jerk]

After seeing this picture I was surprised that someone was able to recognize him just passing by at the ferry terminal. Besides putting on some weight, it looks like he some work done on his nose and eyebrows. Maybe the lips too.
Is it just me or did he forget to shave half his face in this picture?

Aparently he was going so overboard trying to be incognito that someone thought it must be him and called the police.

[Mulboyne]

Bizarro profile in the Yomiuri:

Yomiuri: Sports day hero became oddball

A track star at school, a diligent student, a young man who lived off his parents after finishing university: These descriptions all fit Tatsuya Ichihashi, who was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of abandoning the body of a British woman in Chiba Prefecture in 2007. Early Wednesday morning, Ichihashi arrived at the Chiba prefectural police's Gyotoku Police Station, where the case's investigation headquarters is based. According to the headquarters, Ichihashi went to sleep at 3 a.m. after finishing procedures for his detention and woke up at 6:30 a.m. He did not eat breakfast, only drinking a cup of tea in silence. Ichihashi was born in January 1979 as the first son of a doctor and his wife, a dentist. He moved from Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, to Hashima, Gifu Prefecture, where his mother was born, when he was in primary school and lived there until he graduated from high school.

The son of a wealthy family had been well known for his athletic prowess since primary school. A 63-year-old woman who lives in the same neighborhood in Hashima where Ichihashi lived remembers him as a "hero" of the track events of his school's sports day. Ichihashi belonged to a basketball club and became a vice captain of the team in middle school. "He joined morning workouts and studied diligently. He had a cheerful character, which makes it hard for me to imagine how he's supposed to have turned out," a former classmate said. Ichihashi joined the track team in high school and took a science-weighted course. He entered Chiba University's Faculty of Horticulture a year after graduating from high school. He reportedly often visited a theme park in Urayasu in Chiba Prefecture to pursue his interest in landscape gardening, which he majored in at university, but also drew portraits of foreign women he met there and gave them his phone number along with his sketches of them.

He belonged to a karate club at university. Naoki Motoyama, 67, professor emeritus of the university, who coached the club members at that time, said Ichihashi never forgot to wipe the floor before practice twice a week. Motoyama clearly remembered that Ichihashi said shortly before he graduated that he planned to find a part-time job at an architecture firm to gain hands-on experience in design. But he never held down a steady job after graduating and lived in the apartment in Ichikawa where he spent his early years on a little over 100,000 yen his parents sent him each month.

According to the investigation headquarters, Ichihashi first met and approached Lindsay Hawker, who was an English conversation teacher, at a train station near Hawker's home in Funabashi in the prefecture and followed her to her place. He is believed to have visited her again a few days later and made an appointment for an English lesson. Ichihashi was employed as construction worker for about 14 months in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, until Oct. 11. He applied himself to his job and greeted his boss cheerily each morning. But he never took off his red baseball cap or black-framed glasses, and he always took a bath alone at the dormitory.

[Captain Japan]

A follow-up on the reports that he might have spent time in Shinjuku 2-chome can be found here.

[Greji]

A follow-up on the reports that he might have spent time in Shinjuku 2-chome can be found here.

Looking at the time scale, it does look like he might have had time to smoke a couple joints in 2-chome before he moved to Osaka...

[Mulboyne]

Independent: Tim Blackman - This family's ordeal is far from over

The Hawker family have shown fantastic strength of will in getting to this day. The arrest of Tatsuya Ichihashi is something they have worked hard for and I'm happy to see that their efforts have been rewarded. I can understand how they feel that the arrest of the main suspect in Lindsay's murder achieves some justice. But a long process awaits them, both in dealing with the Japanese justice system and their own grieving process. Today's news will cause the Hawkers to revisit all the trauma and tragedy of what took place in March 2007. The judicial process that lies ahead is time-consuming. Between the arrest and sentencing of Joji Obara [the man charged with the murder of Lucie Blackman], it took seven years and his appeal is still ongoing.

The Hawkers have said, as I have done, that what they have gone through is life-changing. It is an experience they will be dealing with for many years to come. It is a bittersweet experience. On the one hand, the judicial process keeps the trauma alive and the sorrow at the loss of a child at the forefront of your mind. But you are also keeping going your relationship with your child and in some way helping her in that search for justice. Through the Lucie Blackman Trust we are helping other families who have lost a child abroad. Sometimes, regrettably, it is a body which is brought home rather than the person. But through this work, I feel that Lucie's death is not pointless, that it is in some way contributing to the benefit of others.

[Mulboyne]

[IkemenTommy]

What's up with his latest hunger strike? Is he trying to appear that he is criminally insane and unstable?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Oh f*ck, why couldn't someone have spotted him so we could dump in the foundations with those other bodies?"

[American Oyaji]

Kyodo via Japan Today: Construction firm where Ichihashi worked reports losing business


That "discussion beforehand" probably went something like:

"Don't say a f**king word. If anyone finds out he was working for us, we're screwed."

"But boss, if they catch him, he might tell police he was here."

"Sh*t, sh*t, sh*t. We'll have to say something. OK, let's report it but make out he looked nothing like his pictures. If we speak up before they nab him, we can say we felt a sense of social responsibility. Oh f*ck, why couldn't someone have spotted him so we could dump in the foundations with those other bodies?"

That's new signature material right there!:D

[dimwit]

Did anyone catch the pretty amazing fuck up on the Sunday Wide show this morning? They were droning on about how wonderful Exile's performance was at the 20th anniversity of the Akihito coranations was. It must have put someone backstage to sleep because when they switched over to the next story about Ishihashi they forget to change the picture form that of our smiling Tenno.

[let`s talk]

What's up with his latest hunger strike? Is he trying to appear that he is criminally insane and unstable?

He has never worked in his life. He has never been hungry. And now he is starving, like a saint martyr? I do not believe in any single word about his hunger strike. I am sure he is fine. The question is why this info was in the news. What is the purpose?

[Mulboyne]

Yomiuri: Chiba gov. sends letter of sympathy to Hawkers

Chiba Gov. Kensaku Morita recently sent a condolence letter to the parents of Lindsay Hawker, the 22-year-old English-language teacher who was found murdered in Chiba Prefecture in 2007, it has been learned. The letter expressed Morita's condolences over Hawker's death and his determination to promote public safety in the prefecture. The letter, translated into English by an official of the prefectural government, was entrusted to the British Embassy in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Thursday. "I decided to write the letter as I felt sorry for the parents, who have a favorable impression of Japan," Morita said, alluding to footage of the Hawkers he had seen on TV. "Friendly relations between Japan and Britain mustn't be spoiled by the incident."

[GuyJean]

.. The letter, translated into English by an official of the prefectural government, was entrusted to the British Embassy in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Thursday..

Must've taken 2 years to translate..

GJ

[IkemenTommy]

Ichihashi now has attention whoring groupies following him on mixi




I don't have a mixi account so can someone look it up for us?

[Mulboyne]

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

[Samurai_Jerk]

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

[GomiGirl]

Yeah yeah - it is all fun and games until somebody ends up in a tub full of sand. Bad form girls!!

These are the sort of bimbos who write to death row inmates to feel edgy.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Yeah yeah - it is all fun and games until somebody ends up in a tub full of sand. Bad form girls!!

These are the sort of bimbos who write to death row inmates to feel edgy.

Pity Ichihashi is not a Death Row inmate....
....I think they should make him serve his time in a British jail....