Man in His 50s Faces Arrest After Discharging Electronic Monitor and Threatening Knife Rampage

A man in his 50s who allowed his electronic ankle monitor to run out of battery during a provisional stalking restraining period and threatened a knife rampage faces a critical juncture regarding his arrest.

Judge Yang Hwan-seung, the senior judge in charge of warrants at the Seoul Eastern District Court, held a pre-trial detention hearing, or warrant substantive review, for the man in his 50s, identified as A, this afternoon (November 3).

A appeared at the court wearing knee-length shorts, with the electronic ankle monitor visible on his left ankle.

A, who was already under a provisional measure requiring the attachment of a location-tracking electronic device due to a stalking case, is suspected of calling an official at the Seoul Eastern Probation Office on November 1 to threaten that he would commit a knife rampage at the Blue House, the National Police Agency, and the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency.

He also faces charges of intentionally discharging his electronic ankle monitor by failing to charge it.

Police, who were dispatched following a report from the probation office, made an emergency arrest of A on the street in Naesu-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, at around 12:20 p.m. that day and requested an arrest warrant yesterday (November 2).

It was reported that no weapon was found on A.

Regarding A's stalking charges, the Prosecutors' Office indicted him in September, and a trial is currently underway.

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