"This Is the Police," Impostors Break In, Commit Group Assault and Robbery

A group of individuals who posed as police investigators to break into an officetel in Daejeon, where they brutally assaulted an online gambling site operator and robbed him of valuables, have been rounded up en masse.

According to the Daejeon Seobu Police Station today (August 21), police sent six suspects, including a person in their 30s identified as A, to the prosecutors' office under arrest on charges of robbery and injury.

The suspects, including A, are accused of breaking into an officetel in Mannyeon-dong, Seo-gu, Daejeon, at 2:00 AM on July 10, assaulting an online gambling site operator in his 20s identified as B, and fleeing with 32.3 million won in total assets—including 31 million won in cash and two computer main units worth 1.3 million won.

According to police, these individuals in their 20s and 30s had gathered intelligence centering around A that "a business (an online gambling site) gathering funds is located in Daejeon" and planned the crime.

Posing as police investigators, they forced their way into the officetel office, assaulted B, intimidated two other employees by making them face the wall, and stole the valuables before fleeing.

During this process, they indiscriminately beat B while wearing expandable batons and knuckles (metal blunt weapons worn on fingers like rings), inflicting injuries that required five weeks of treatment, including an orbital fracture.

Investigations revealed that they tracked the victims to identify the office unit, stationed one person in a car as a lookout, and had five people take the elevator up to carry out the crime.

Initiating an investigation, the police tracked their movements and apprehended four suspects, while tracking down the remaining two over a two-week period to arrest them successively in Daejeon and Okcheon, North Chungcheong Province, and placed them all under arrest.

Police investigation results showed that A had been suffering from financial difficulties after a business he previously operated was forced to close due to police crackdowns, leading him to gather neighborhood seniors and juniors to plot the crime.

Police confiscated the crime tools and 20.1 million won of the stolen cash from the suspects.

Believing that A and the others pre-planned the crime to steal funds flowing into the business, the police transferred all of them to the prosecution in custody.

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