Prosecution Indicts Resident on Charges of Assaulting Apartment Security Guard and Detains Them

A resident accused of assaulting the late apartment security guard Choi Hee-seok in Gangbuk-gu is leaving the Seoul Northern District Court in Dobong-gu, Seoul, after completing the pre-arrest suspect interrogation (warrant hearing) on the morning of the 22nd of last month. [Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Donghoon Jeong] A resident of an apartment in Gangbuk-gu, Seoul, who is accused of assaulting and threatening an apartment security guard, has been arrested and indicted.

The Seoul Northern District Prosecutors' Office's Violent Crime Division (Chief Prosecutor Jonghwa Jeong) announced on the 12th that resident A (48) was arrested and indicted on charges including violation of the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes (retaliatory confinement, injury, retaliatory assault) and false accusation.

A is a resident of an apartment in Ui-dong, Gangbuk-gu, Seoul. He is accused of repeatedly assaulting and threatening the late security guard Heeseok Choi over a parking issue around the end of April this year. Choi left a will stating that he had been assaulted and threatened by A, and took his own life on the 10th of last month. A was arrested on the 22nd of last month.

The prosecution applied a total of seven charges against A, including retaliatory confinement, injury, retaliatory assault under the Special Act, false accusation, attempted coercion, threat, and injury.

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