According to Sankei Newspaper, Wakayama Prefectural Police arrested the culprits of the November 17th 2010 robbery of the old building of Toyosato Elementary School, the model school of K-ON!. The 17 and 18 year-old boys were arrested for stealing figures, guitars and cash boxes. The investigators said the two boys broke into the exhibition room of K-ON! goods at 1:30 am on November 17th 2010 and stole twenty character figures, three guitars, and two portable safes. The two boys confessed that they liked K-ON! and wanted the character figures. The 18 year old boy had been previously arrested for an unrelated theft in December and the police found the stolen figures when they searched his house. The two boys are considered to be gangsters of a group of burglars, who have been robbing offices in Wakayama prefecture.

Source: Sankei
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