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duo of thieves who robbed an empty house in a deserted area have been caught.
They met in prison and meticulously searched for the location of the crime in advance.
Reporter Jin Ki-hoon of CJB covered the story.
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the dark, a man wearing a mask and hat looked around and climbed the building using the outdoor unit installed on the veranda and the handrail as a stepping stone.
It took him only 8 minutes to break into the unlit second floor and steal 3.6 million won worth of jewelry and other items.
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A few days later, he tried to break the safe by stepping on the railing on the 6th floor of an apartment building in Hoam-dong, Chungju City, but failed and escaped.
41-year-old A and 51-year-old B got to know each other while incarcerated in prison, and they mainly targeted unlit houses in apartments in sparsely populated areas.
In order to avoid police investigations or CCTV, they entered through the fence in a remote place at the back of the apartment rather than the entrance and exit of the apartment.
[Apartment official: There is an apartment over there, but I think I came to my apartment because I went in there and didn't have anything to rob.] For about
20 days from the beginning of last month, in Chungbuk, Cheonan, and Gyeongbuk, etc., the number of empty houses robbed 19 times, the damage amounted to 50 million won. month.
[Kim Do-yeon/Chungbuk Jincheon Police Station Investigation Department Strong Team: They also wore walkie-talkies to communicate with each other.
The car also parked farther away from the crime scene and moved to a place where there was no CCTV (they evaded tracking)]
The police arrested them in Cheongju and sent them to arrest on charges of habitual theft, while purchasing stolen goods. We plan to investigate the alleged stolen property against the three gold and silver shop owners.
(Video coverage: Lee Cheon-gi CJB)