Japanese restaurant was "serially destroyed" last night with oil and hit the brakes this morning

A Japanese restaurant on the ground floor of No. 35 Staunton Street, Central, was smashed and drenched with red oil in the early morning yesterday (27th). The restaurant was then surrounded by wooden boards for maintenance.

As of today (28th), the sabotage operation has escalated. At about 3 am, the restaurant was found to be hit by a car, which smashed the enclosed wooden board outside the door. The police are investigating the culprit's motive.

It is understood that at that time, officers from the Central Police District Special Task Force of the police were conducting anti-burglary patrols nearby. After hearing the loud noise, they rushed to the sound and found a private car parked outside the restaurant in the opposite direction. The male driver in the car found a The policeman immediately jumped out of the car and fled. After the two sides chased for dozens of meters, the male driver was arrested in uniform.

Police initially suspect that the crash is related to the criminal damage case yesterday, and the car is believed to have entered Staunton Street from the opposite lane of Peel Street, and then crashed into the restaurant door at high speed.

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Yesterday (27th) at about 3 am, a passerby was driving on the ground floor of 35 Staunton Street and found that the glass door of the Japanese restaurant was smashed and the door was stained with red oil.

The police arrived at the scene to investigate. Since they could not contact the person in charge of the restaurant, they left a note asking the person in charge to call the police investigation team to follow up the incident. The case was classified as "criminal damage".

The police said that at about 2:30 a.m. on the 28th, it was reported that during the patrol of the police officers, they found a man with suspicious behavior at the junction of Peel Street and Hollywood Road, and stepped forward to stop and investigate.

The man tried to escape but was stopped at the junction of Peel Street and Wellington Street.

Officers later found a private car hitting the ground floor hoarding at the ground floor of 35 Staunton Street.

The 53-year-old man surnamed Xie was arrested on suspicion of "criminal damage" and the case was handed over to the Central Criminal Investigation Team for follow-up.

The glass door of the Japanese restaurant in Central was smashed by the red oil

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