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man in his 50s has been arrested for habitually stealing parcels in front of someone's house.
It turned out that he took all kinds of delivery boxes around the residential areas in Mapo-gu, Seoul.
This is reporter Jo Yoon-ha.
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A man sneaks up the stairs, looks carefully at the delivery box, and then goes down again.
A few hours later, this man reappears.
He looks around, steals, and runs away.
This man was caught by the police at dawn yesterday (27th).
[Superintendent Lee Dong-ryeol/Seoul Mapo Police Station World Cup Division: The suspect now seems to have wandered around places where there is no door lock or CCTV below.]
As a result of the police investigation, a 52-year-old man, A, found more than 100 in residential areas such as Seongsan-dong and Mangwon-dong, Seoul. It turned out that the parcel was stolen.
Mr. A moved the boxes he stole to the empty space between the building and the building.
Then I hid it under the motorcycle or behind it in the back of the wagon so that no one could find it.
Afterwards, he moved the hidden object to his house at an inconspicuous time, and Mr. A's house was full of unopened items.
[Sergeant Kim Chi-yeol/Seoul Mapo Police Station World Cup Division: There were so many boxes, we couldn't count them all.] From
tissues, clothes, laptops to eggs and mackerel.
The refrigerator and microwave were full as there was nowhere to put more.
Neighbors said they didn't notice until the man was caught.
[Same villa resident: From one day onwards, boxes have been piled up here, 'Does this uncle work as a courier?'
We thought so.
I am dumplings.
The box is gone.
We couldn't have thought of that.]
[Neighbors: Items in mailboxes, such as cigarettes.
They keep saying that all of that will disappear.
It's so trivial that it's hard to report it...
.] The
police will soon conduct a search and seizure of Mr. A's house to determine the exact scale of the theft.
(Video coverage: Ha Ryung, Video editing: Kim Jong-woo)