Ray William Johnson
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He uses his stuntman skills to get up to the second floor and he enters through a balcony and he takes whatever he wants and he leaves.
And he does this over and over and over again.
Now, because of the amount of houses he's stolen from, the local police are all over this case.
They start investigating, and pretty quickly they realize they're dealing with a serial burglar.
So they start interviewing people around town and asking them if they've seen anything suspicious in the area lately.
And it turns out that a lot of people start reporting a tall, good-looking man like out on the prowl.
But that doesn't really narrow it down.
Police can't just go and arrest every tall, handsome man they see.
So they keep looking.
Meanwhile, Yasutomo has actually stepped up his burglary game
by a lot.
He's not just climbing telephone poles or trees now to reach the second floor.
He's climbing up the outer walls of these houses and buildings, using nothing but his fingers to grip the tiny spaces on the walls to lift himself up.
And this becomes his go-to way of stealing from people's homes.
And police, who still haven't caught him yet, they end up nicknaming him the Spider-Man Thief.
Because, you know, he can climb walls without any tools.
So Yasutomo keeps going, keeps breaking into houses for several more months.
In total, he breaks into 43 different places and he steals over 8 million Japanese yen worth of cash and other items, which is the equivalent of like 77,000 US dollars in 2014.
So at this point, this becomes like a full-time job for him and it's not clear he's ever going to get caught.
Now, here's where the Green Ranger of it all comes in.