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just 15 seconds of dawn, three people were caught turning gold and silver rooms.
When I caught it, they were all in their teens, and one of them was in the 6th grade of elementary school.
This is KBC reporter Jo Yoon-jung.
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A gold and silver store in Gwangju in the early morning.
A man in a helmet smashes a glass wall with a hammer and enters the store with an accomplice.
Heading straight to the display, they break the glass again before fleeing with a frantic sweep of precious metals.
It took only 15 seconds for them to steal 40 million won worth of precious metals.
Immediately after the crime, he left the scene with another person waiting nearby on a motorcycle.
[Geumsilbang owner: Self-employed people are having a hard time during the corona time, but I feel so bad and my heart is so upset to see things robbed like this.]
The police, who went on a chase, caught the three suspects after about 8 hours and 30 minutes, and they all It was a 10 year old boy.
Two of the three were middle and high school students, and the other one was 12 years old and was in the 6th grade of elementary school.
A 12-year-old is considered a 'juvenile under the law' who does not face criminal punishment even if he commits a crime.
Police charged them with special theft and confiscated some of the stolen jewelry.
Before the crime, it was found out that they met with a group of people on other motorcycles, and they are investigating whether they were accomplices.
(Video coverage: Hyungsoo Kim KBC)