Called Out for Secondhand Trade, Vehicle Hijacking Drama in Broad Daylight

Lender Chased to Jeju for Unpaid Debt
Assailant Caught Following Bystander's Report of Assault and Kidnapping Scene

Individuals who carried out a broad daylight vehicle kidnapping in Jeju for not repaying money have been arrested. It is known that they lured the victim by pretending to make a transaction after discovering the victim's post on the used goods trading platform Danggeun Market.

[Video source=Seogwipo Police Station]

On the 26th, the Seogwipo Police Station in Jeju announced that they had arrested and sent two men in their 30s, A and B, on charges of violating the Act on the Aggravated Punishment, etc. of Specific Crimes (joint injury and joint confinement) and special threats. They are accused of repeatedly hitting the face of a man in his 30s, C, on the street in Seogwipo City around noon on the 21st, forcibly putting him into a rental car he was riding, confining him for about an hour, and threatening him with wooden sticks.

According to the police investigation, they were acquaintances, and A and his group had lent C 170 million won three months ago. However, when C avoided repaying the money, they tracked his whereabouts and recently went to Jeju. Later, they found that C had posted an expensive watch for sale on the used goods trading app Danggeun Market, pretended to purchase the item, met C on the street in Seogwipo City, and then committed the crime.

According to the released video, two men who got out of a black rental car take a man who was on the sidewalk toward a white passenger car across the street. They open the door of the white passenger car, press the man's head, and forcibly push him into the car. The man, presumed to be the victim, resists but is helpless, and they soon leave the scene in the white passenger car.

At the time, the police immediately dispatched after receiving a report from a passerby who witnessed the assault and kidnapping nearby, issuing the highest alert level, code zero (code 0). Later, through closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage, they secured the license plate number of the vehicle they used and made an emergency arrest around 5:11 p.m., about five hours later.

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