Eerie Sighting at Hypermarket: Man in Black Raincoat Caught on Camera

A man wearing a black raincoat appears at a jewelry store inside a dark, closed hypermarket.

After hesitating and looking around, he seems to make up his mind and repeatedly strikes the glass display case with a blunt weapon.

Once the glass shatters with fragments flying everywhere from the powerful blows, he sweeps up all the jewelry inside and flees the scene.

The man in his 20s who stole hundreds of millions of won worth of valuables from a jewelry store located inside a hypermarket and fled has been caught by the police before getting far.

The Incheon Namdong Police Station announced that it has urgently arrested a man in his 20s, identified as A, on charges of nighttime burglary and larceny, and requested an arrest warrant.

A is accused of stealing 173 pieces of 14K and 18K gold bracelets worth 500 million won at a jewelry store on the second floor of the Homeplus Ganseok branch in Namdong-gu, Incheon, around 2:00 a.m. the day before yesterday (the 14th), and fleeing in a taxi.

Upon receiving the report, the police launched a pursuit and urgently arrested A at around 2:40 p.m. on the street in Hwagok-dong, Gangseo-gu, Seoul, 12 hours after the crime.

All of the stolen jewelry was recovered.

Although the hypermarket and the store each had contracts with private security companies, they failed to stop A, who broke into the mart, carried out the crime, and escaped.

According to the police investigation into his recent movements, A did not scout the crime scene in advance, but instead looked around the perimeter of the mart and entered the interior through a window.

As the target of the crime was a hypermarket, which maintains a relatively high level of security, the police plan to investigate whether there was an internal accomplice.

(Reported by Kim Minjeong | Video by Kim Kihyun | Graphics by Lee Jeong-ju | Produced by SBS Digital News)
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