Faulty reasoning

The Mainichi Daily News reports that police have unravelled the fiendishly clever plot of a Japanese arch-criminal:

A 24-year-old man who fatally stabbed an employee of a Japanese pub in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo and stole cash earlier this month has been arrested, police said.

..."I did it because I was short of money," officers quoted Furuya as saying. "I stabbed him to cover up the robbery."

Good thinking, Furuya-san.