"I Thought It Was a Luxury Watch..." The Watch Stolen After Stabbing an Acquaintance Turned Out to Be a Fake

Squandered Large Gambling Losses... Planned Robbery Crime
Stabbed Acquaintance and Seized Counterfeit Wristwatch

A man in his 40s who stabbed an acquaintance multiple times with a weapon and fled after stealing a wristwatch he believed to be a luxury item was arrested by the police. The stolen watch was later revealed to be a counterfeit.

On the 20th, the Gwangju Gwangsan Police Station announced that they plan to request an arrest warrant for Mr. A, who is suspected of attempted robbery-murder.

According to the police, at around 3:23 PM the previous day, Mr. A allegedly stabbed Mr. B, a man in his 50s whom he knew, nine times with a weapon inside a restroom of a commercial building in Jangdeok-dong, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju, then stole his wristwatch and fled.

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Fortunately, Mr. B, who was stabbed multiple times, is reported to have no life-threatening injuries. However, the police judged that Mr. A had intent to kill and applied charges of attempted robbery-murder rather than robbery with injury.

Police investigations revealed that Mr. A originally planned to rob the owner of a gambling arcade he frequented. Mr. A, addicted to online gambling, had already lost a large sum of money.

However, on the day of the planned crime, when Mr. A visited the arcade, the owner was not present. Instead, Mr. A happened to encounter Mr. B in the restroom of the commercial building. Mr. B was known to lend some gambling funds to Mr. A and appeared to be wealthy, often wearing an expensive luxury watch on his wrist.

After stabbing Mr. B with a weapon, Mr. A took the wristwatch, presumed to be a luxury item, and fled. However, after persuasion from acquaintances, he called the 112 emergency center about 50 minutes after the crime, disclosed his location, and surrendered.

The police searched the alley area Mr. A indicated and took him into custody. After understanding the specific circumstances of the incident, the police requested an expert appraisal of the stolen wristwatch to assess the value of the robbery victim’s property. The appraisal revealed that the watch was a counterfeit.

Meanwhile, the police plan to investigate the arcade owner for illegal gambling site money exchange charges.

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