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A man in his 50s who gave 4 cigarettes instead of a taxi fare and assaulted a taxi driver was sentenced to a fine.



A man in his 50s was refusing to pay 4,000 won for a taxi, and was fined and punished with a fine of 12 million won, which is 3,000 times the taxi fare.



Yesterday (23rd), Changwon District Court judge Kim Cho-ha announced that he had sentenced passenger A (55), who was handed over to trial on charges of violating the Act on Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes (driver assault), a fine of 12 million won. I did.



Mr. A got into a taxi in a drunken state on a road in Seongsan-gu, Changwon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do around 2:30 a.m. on the 25th of June, and handed 4 cigarettes to taxi driver B instead of the taxi fare.



When Mr. B, who did not receive the fee, tried to move to the nearest police station, Mr. A said, "Are you going to the police box because of the taxi fare of 4,000 won?"



The court said, "He reoffended during the period of repeating the same crime, but decided on the sentence considering the fact that he reached an agreement with the victim during the investigation stage and that he was acknowledging his mistake and reflecting on it."



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