Woman stabbed over cell phone charger

Tokyo police allege woman unlawfully entered a neighbor’s apartment to charge her cell phone and then stabbed the occupant with a knife.

The legal resident of the apartment, whose name was not released, said she came home Saturday to find someone else’s cell phone in her charger, Kyodo News Agency reported Sunday.

The resident alleged Michiko Hiroya, 34, dropped by later to claim the cell phone and then stabbed her in the hand when she tried to call police. The alleged victim, who is in her 20s, was not seriously wounded.

Hiroya reportedly told police she need to borrow the battery charger because she was having financial difficulties, Kyodo reported. Hiroya allegedly gained entrance to the apartment with a copy of her neighbor’s key, which she had duplicated after construction workers left it in the neighbor’s mailbox last year, police said.