Some youths were caught recently stealing faucets and showerheads from a school in Japan.

Police in Kitakyushu City arrested two juveniles aged 16 and one aged 15 who were identified through security camera footage at the Kiyanose Junior High School in Yahatanishi Ward, which they targeted last 17 and 18 September, TV Asahi reports.

In the south of England, officers of the Metropolitan Police arrested a man behind a series of thefts of taps from hardware stores.

Daniel Cleveland, 33, of Bromley, was sentenced to three years in jail for stealing £16,000 worth of items, mostly faucets, from B&Q stores in Kent, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Greenwich from February 2024 until March this year, ITV News reports.

Cleveland and his accomplice would throw the taps over a fence from inside the garden center of the store, collect the goods on the other side, and bundle them into a getaway vehicle with false plates, according to ITV News.

Cleveland was arrested at his home on 30 April and was meted a three-year sentence, while his cohort remains at large.

Meanwhile, an SUV driver was recently stopped for inspection at a checkpoint in Barangay Tinoto in Maasim, Sarangani province.

When the policeman heard a chirp from one of the bags in the passenger seat, he asked the driver to open them, GMA Regional TV One Mindanao reports.

When the 27-year-old driver from Digos, Davao del Sur opened the bags, they revealed bird cages with live and dead hornbills inside, Police Corporal Rolando Zuero Jr. of the Maasim municipal police station said, according to GMA.

The driver said he was contracted to transport the bags to Digos and did not know their contents. Nevertheless, he faces charges of illegal transport and possession of wildlife.

The live hornbills were turned over to the Regional Wildlife Rescue Center in Lutayan, Sultan Kudarat.