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Ray William Johnson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
5821 total appearances

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Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Green Ranger Is In Prison For This? // The Yasutomo Ihara Scandal

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.

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Green Ranger Is In Prison For This? // The Yasutomo Ihara Scandal

And he does this over and over and over again.

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Green Ranger Is In Prison For This? // The Yasutomo Ihara Scandal

Now, because of the amount of houses he's stolen from, the local police are all over this case.

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Green Ranger Is In Prison For This? // The Yasutomo Ihara Scandal

They start investigating, and pretty quickly they realize they're dealing with a serial burglar.

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Green Ranger Is In Prison For This? // The Yasutomo Ihara Scandal

So they start interviewing people around town and asking them if they've seen anything suspicious in the area lately.

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Green Ranger Is In Prison For This? // The Yasutomo Ihara Scandal

And it turns out that a lot of people start reporting a tall, good-looking man like out on the prowl.

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Green Ranger Is In Prison For This? // The Yasutomo Ihara Scandal

But that doesn't really narrow it down.

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Green Ranger Is In Prison For This? // The Yasutomo Ihara Scandal

Police can't just go and arrest every tall, handsome man they see.

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Green Ranger Is In Prison For This? // The Yasutomo Ihara Scandal

So they keep looking.

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Green Ranger Is In Prison For This? // The Yasutomo Ihara Scandal

Meanwhile, Yasutomo has actually stepped up his burglary game

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Green Ranger Is In Prison For This? // The Yasutomo Ihara Scandal

by a lot.

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Green Ranger Is In Prison For This? // The Yasutomo Ihara Scandal

He's not just climbing telephone poles or trees now to reach the second floor.

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Green Ranger Is In Prison For This? // The Yasutomo Ihara Scandal

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.

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Green Ranger Is In Prison For This? // The Yasutomo Ihara Scandal

And this becomes his go-to way of stealing from people's homes.

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Green Ranger Is In Prison For This? // The Yasutomo Ihara Scandal

And police, who still haven't caught him yet, they end up nicknaming him the Spider-Man Thief.

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Green Ranger Is In Prison For This? // The Yasutomo Ihara Scandal

Because, you know, he can climb walls without any tools.

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Green Ranger Is In Prison For This? // The Yasutomo Ihara Scandal

So Yasutomo keeps going, keeps breaking into houses for several more months.

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Green Ranger Is In Prison For This? // The Yasutomo Ihara Scandal

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.

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Green Ranger Is In Prison For This? // The Yasutomo Ihara Scandal

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.

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Green Ranger Is In Prison For This? // The Yasutomo Ihara Scandal

Now, here's where the Green Ranger of it all comes in.