Man Seen 'Stumbling' in Shocking Video Near Suwon School Arrested

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A video recently went viral on social media showing a man standing in the middle of the city like a "zombie," in what is being called the "Suwon drug incident." Police have apprehended the man in his 30s seen in the footage, and he has tested positive for methamphetamine.

Jeong Jiyeon reports.

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A man with his arms hanging limp stumbles around.

He stands frozen, leaning heavily to one side.

The video, which was posted on social media on Sunday (June 21), looks no different from footage of addicts wandering around like zombies after taking fentanyl in the United States. It has spread rapidly online, causing significant shock among the public.

This is the alleyway where the man was seen stumbling.

If you walk a little further, you can see an elementary school in the background; it is less than 50 meters away.

[Nearby Resident: Students come and go here frequently, and there is a bus stop right in front, so people have no choice but to pass through this area. It looks like it was right here. Right here. The very fact that such a person was here is terrifying.]

Based on the video, police identified the location and apprehended the man in the vicinity on the morning of Tuesday, June 23.

A police official stated, "He was arrested in an emergency procedure after a preliminary drug test returned a positive result for methamphetamine."

Police have also launched an investigation into the possibility that the man may have used fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is 50 times more addictive than heroin and 80 times more than morphine.

As preliminary drug tests cannot detect new types of drugs such as fentanyl, police plan to determine whether he used other substances through a detailed forensic analysis by the National Forensic Service.

It is reported that police plan to request an arrest warrant once the investigation is complete, as the man is currently denying the drug use itself.

(Video coverage: Kim Young-hwan | Video editing: So Ji-hye | Design: Jo Su-in | Footage courtesy of Threads)
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