Aside from the incident that day, Sept 13, outside the elderly man’s house in Kumagaya, there had been two police reports of a foreign man breaking and entering into city residences. On Sept 15, the police obtained an arrest warrant for Mr Ludena for allegedly trespassing into a storage room in one of the two cases. But he was arrested for the first time on Oct 8 on suspicion of murdering the Tasaki couple after regaining consciousness and being discharged from hospital.