Sex Offender Caught at Gangnam Club After Tampering with Electronic Ankle Monitor

Ministry of Justice to Apply for Arrest Warrant Soon

A sex offender who cut off his electronic monitoring device (electronic anklet) and fled was arrested about 3 hours and 40 minutes later.

According to the police on the 3rd, the Seocho Police Station in Seoul apprehended a man in his 30s, Mr. A, near Sinsa Station around 2:50 a.m. that day. Mr. A damaged the electronic anklet with a cutter in a restroom of a building near Gangnam Station at 11:14 p.m. the previous day.

Mr. A changed clothes and switched taxis to evade police pursuit, wandered around the Gangnam-daero area, and reportedly visited a club.

The Ministry of Justice and the police conducted a joint investigation by reviewing closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage and tracking mobile phone base stations. Mr. A was released after serving time for attempted rape and was ordered to wear the electronic anklet until 2027 after his release in October last year.

The Ministry of Justice plans to request an arrest warrant for Mr. A on charges of violating the Electronic Monitoring Device Act.

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