Police track down unlikely shoe thief from Japanese kindergarten

Officers installed security cameras to get to the bottom of the thefts, and ended up uncovering a four-legged culprit

Police and staff were initially flummoxed when shoes started disappearing from a kindergarten in south-west Japan, not least because the “thefts” were of single shoes, not pairs.

Unable to get to the bottom of two incidents reported earlier this month, police installed three security cameras in the hope the thief would strike again, according to the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.

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