Busan Sasang Police Station Arrests Man in His 30s for Secretly Breaking into Mortuary and Stealing Gold Teeth

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Kang Sharon] A funeral director who pulled out and stole 10 gold teeth from a corpse in a mortuary was arrested by the police.


Busan Sasang Police Station announced on the 14th that they apprehended a man in his 30s, funeral director A, on charges of breaking into a hospital mortuary and pulling out gold teeth from a corpse.


According to the police, at around 3:30 a.m. that day, A pulled out a total of 10 gold teeth from two corpses stored in refrigerators in the mortuary of a hospital located in Sasang-gu.


Police, who responded to a 112 report stating "someone is entering the mortuary and opening the refrigerator," arrested A at the scene and seized the gold teeth as evidence.



It was revealed that A, due to financial difficulties, stole the gold teeth from the mortuary where he usually worked in order to sell them on the market.


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