Police in Tokyo said Tuesday have arrested a 61-year-old deliveryman on suspicion of stealing women's underwear and said they had found more than 1,000 items of women's lingerie and clothing at his home.

According to police, the suspect, Yasushi Kobayashi, who works for a printing company in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, has admitted to the charge and said he had been stealing women's underwear and stockings for the past 20 years because he liked to wear them ever since he was young, Fuji TV reported.

Kobayashi was arrested for stealing nine items that had been hung out to dry at a costume rental shop in Higashi-nippori in Tokyo's Arakawa Ward on April 17. When police searched his home, they found more than 1,000 items of women's underwear and clothing

Police quoted Kobayashi as saying that while he was making deliveries in his truck, he would often steal lingerie that been hung out to dry on balconies or from washing machines in coin laundries.

Source: ANNnewsCH