Searched Naver with "Need Money"... What a Man Did with a Kettle in His Hand

At 2:00 AM on the day before yesterday, a man wearing a black raincoat and a mask covering his face entered a jewelry store inside a large supermarket in Incheon.

After snooping around the display cases covered with dark cloth, he suddenly picked up an electric kettle and smashed it down multiple times.

Shortly after, the display case opened, and the man hastily stuffed whatever jewelry he could grab into a plastic bag he had prepared in advance.

It took just about five minutes from the time a man in his 20s, surnamed A, broke into the store until he fled, making off with 173 gold bracelets worth approximately 500 million won.

Large supermarkets typically lock their doors at 10:00 PM, but Mr. A is reported to have sneaked in by finding an open door.

Upon receiving a report immediately after the incident, the police urgently arrested Mr. A on a street in Hwagok-dong, Seoul, 12 hours later.

[Lee Byung-chul / Head of the Detective Division, Incheon Namdong Police Station: Promptly dispatching to the scene, we conducted on-site forensics while tracking the suspect's escape route, and successfully recovered all of the stolen goods at the arrest site.]

Appearing at the court to undergo a pre-trial suspect interrogation, Mr. A stated, "I didn't have a job, so I needed living expenses."

[Mr. A: (Is there a reason you targeted the jewelry store in the large supermarket?) I needed money and searched on Naver, and that place popped up, so I went there.]

The police plan to hand the case over to the prosecution after further investigating how Mr. A entered the closed supermarket after business hours and whether there were any other motives for the crime.

Reported by Lim Ji-hyun | Produced by Yoon Sung-shik | Video by Lee Chan-soo | Video Editing by Oh Young-taek | Produced by SBS Digital News
※ Please note: This article was translated by AI and may contain errors.