"This Is the Police": Group Impersonates Officers with Batons and Knuckles... The Truth

A group of individuals who broke into an officetel in Daejeon by impersonating police investigators, brutally assaulting an operator of an online gambling site, and robbing them of cash and valuables has been rounded up and arrested en masse.

The Daejeon Seobu Police Station announced today (the 21st) that it has transferred six suspects, including a person in their 30s identified as A, to the prosecution under detention on charges of robbery resulting in injury.

Suspect A and the others are accused of breaking into an officetel in Mannyeon-dong, Seo-gu, Daejeon, at around 2:00 AM on July 10, assaulting B (in their 20s), an operator of an online gambling site, and fleeing with 32.3 million won in valuables—including 31 million won in cash and two computer mainframes worth 1.3 million won.

The suspects, all in their 20s and 30s, planned the crime after obtaining intelligence that a business centering around funds tied to A existed in Daejeon.

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

During the process, they put on brass knuckles and brandished expandable batons, indiscriminately beating B and inflicting injuries that required five weeks of medical treatment, including an orbital fracture.

After tailing the victims to identify their office unit, one suspect acted as a lookout in a car while the other five took the elevator up to carry out the crime.

Initiating an investigation, the police tracked the suspects' movements and apprehended four of them. The remaining two were arrested sequentially in Daejeon and Okcheon, North Chungcheong Province, following a two-week manhunt.

Investigations revealed that A orchestrated the crime by gathering neighborhood acquaintances after experiencing financial difficulties following the closure of a business A previously ran due to police crackdowns.

The police confiscated the tools used in the crime and 20.1 million won of the stolen cash from the suspects.

Believing that A and the others pre-planned the crime to steal incoming funds from the business, the police have forwarded all of them to the prosecution in custody.

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