John Kuramoto is a small-time criminal who appears in Mr. Monk on Wheels.
John was a petty thief who had been previously convicted of auto theft on two occasions. He was last arrested on November 15, 2004, and listed on the SFPD database. His criminal profile listed his height as 5' 7'' and weight as 158 pounds.
In 2009, he met Sarah Longson at a bar, who paid him $3,000 to steal Dean Berry's bike, and the bike lock with it. Natalie Teeger helped him when he crashed the bike, inadvertently helping him steal it. When Natalie and Adrian Monk confronted John at his home (where he was living with his cousin Vince), he shot Monk, temporarily crippling him. Because of the attention this attracted, Longson killed John with his own 32. calibre gun, the same weapon he wounded Monk with, when they met at a graveyard to pay John. Moments before doing so, she had given him extra so that he may go into hiding in Mexico for a while, never intending to actually let him leave.