Teenagers Caught Stealing Hundreds of Thousands of Won from Unmanned Stores

[Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Donghoon Jeong] Teenagers who stole cash from unmanned stores late at night were caught by the police.

According to the police on the 3rd, the Eunpyeong Police Station in Seoul announced that they have arrested and are investigating three teenagers on charges of special theft.

Among them, individuals A and B are suspected of stealing cash from 10 unmanned ice cream vending stores in the Eunpyeong district over about 1 hour and 30 minutes starting from 3 a.m. on the 26th of last month. They are believed to have pried open the machines with metal levers and stolen approximately 4 million won in cash.

Individual B, along with accomplice C, is also reported to have stolen about 3 million won from 9 unmanned ice cream shops in the Nam-gu and Suyeong-gu areas of Busan within about 4 hours the day before.

The police, who have been investigating through the closed-circuit television (CCTV) of the affected stores, arrested individual A on the night of the 2nd and individuals B and C in Cheonan on the 3rd.

It is known that they testified that they committed the crimes because they needed money to spend while going out together after leaving home. The police plan to apply for arrest warrants while investigating whether there are other affected stores and the exact details of the crimes.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.