Tatsuya Ichihashi, the suspect in the 2007 murder of British woman Lindsay Hawker, had two gun-shaped mace canisters in his possession and about 300,000 yen in cash when he was arrested Tuesday in Osaka after more than two and a half years on the run, investigative sources said Wednesday.

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