A cell phone that disappeared while sleeping on the subway...Arrested a gang handed over to Uzbekistan.

Drunk and asleep passengers stole their cell phones and woke them up

Since September, reports of "cell phones gone" have been reported one after another

Identify 2 men in their 50s...Stolen mobile phone transactions.

[Anchor]
I recently fell asleep on the Seoul subway.When I woke up, there were a series of reports that my cell phone was missing.

When the police analyzed more than 200 CCTVs and caught the culprit, it was confirmed that these mobile phones had already been sold to Uzbekistan.

I'm reporter Shin Gwi-hye.

[Reporter]
Late at night, a drunk passenger falls asleep in front of the subway platform.

This passenger falls asleep with his phone on the chair, and a man who is passing by puts it straight into his pocket.

Then, he even wakes me up by pretending to help me nonchalantly.

Since September, police have received a series of reports that mobile phones have disappeared while sleeping in subway stations or trains in this way.

The police analyzed about 200 CCTVs and found two men in their 50s.

In a dark alley in the middle of the night, they traded these stolen cell phones and brought money.

"We will arrest you for acquiring stolen goods. You can have a lawyer...."

Mr. A, a man in his 30s from Uzbekistan, bought a mobile phone.

In the last two months, I've bought 10 cell phones from 3 thieves in this way, all of them secretly taken out to Uzbekistan.

Mr. A bought 10 mobile phones for about 2 million won and sold them, making a profit of 70,000 won to 100,000 won each.

The police, who arrested three thieves and A one after another, arrested A on charges of acquiring stolen property first on the 15th.

I'm YTN's Shin Gwihye.

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