A man in his 50s has been arrested by the police on charges of cheating himself as a police officer and breaking into a street vendor and stealing cash several times.



The Gwangjin Police Station in Seoul arrested a man in his 50s on the 10th afternoon on charges of habitual theft and impersonation of public officials.



A is suspected of breaking into the store by deceiving the owner of a street vendor in Junggok-dong as a 'police officer who came out to crack down on duty-free cigarettes', and then ran away with 600,000 won in cash stored in a plastic container.



Person A was found to have stolen 4.5 million won in cash from five street vendors across the country with the same method.



Person A is known to have admitted to the crime, saying, "I stole money for the purpose of raising living expenses" during the police investigation.



The police plan to arrest A on the 12th and investigate the exact motive and circumstances of the crime.