Habitual Theft Again Two Months After Release... 50-Year-Old with Theft Record Sentenced to Prison

A man in his 50s who was released after serving a prison sentence for theft and then repeatedly committed theft again was sentenced to imprisonment.

According to the legal community on the 2nd, Judge Lee Chang-won of Criminal Division 11 at the Seoul Northern District Court sentenced Mr. A to one year in prison on the 2nd of last month for theft charges. The court explained the sentencing reason as "having a prior record of the same type of crime and repeatedly committing theft during the recidivism period."

Mr. A was prosecuted for committing eight thefts from October last year to May this year. On October 25 last year, he stole a bag, wallet, wireless earphones, and other items worth about 380,000 won from a parked motorcycle on a road in Gangbuk-gu, Seoul. Then, three times between November and December of the same year, he stole samgyeopsal (pork belly), raincoats, bankbooks, beverage cans, bags, and other items worth about 197,000 won. This year, from February to May, he stole mobile phones, chargers, cigarettes, electric blankets, clothes, and insecticides worth about 420,000 won in four separate incidents.

He had also been sentenced to six months in prison for theft by the Seoul Northern District Court in February last year and was released in August of the same year.

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