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Investigators (nhà điều tra) in Chiba Prefecture had a hard case to crack (việc hóc búa, khó giải quyết, ca này khó). Sure, they’re trained to deal with criminals (tội phạm), but this time around, they weren’t up against just any common crook (kẻ lừa đảo). They were up against a god…of toilets.

OK, odds are none of the officers genuinely thought they were trying to catch a literal divine being. However, after a string of serial toilet thefts took place in Funabashi City, they started dubbing the caper “The God of Toilets Case.”

It all began back in October, when a construction crew part-way through building a house in Funabashi showed up to the job site to discover the toilet had disappeared since their last shift (ca làm việc). It wasn’t long until another porcelain throne (ngai vàng bằng sứ) vanished (biến mất) from a different under-construction house, and from there the reports kept coming in, with the eventual commode (tủ nhiều ngăn) count reaching 18 pilfered (chôm chỉa, ăn cắp vặt) poop pots.

But the police finally have their god/man, having traced the thefts to 26-year-old office worker Ryusei Takada, who was arrested and taken into custody earlier this week.

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