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Part-timer fakes robbery
A 17-year-old part-time worker at a convenience store in Gwangju was caught for staging a robbery in collusion with his friend, Gwangsan Police Station said Sunday.
According to the police, the employee called 112 at 11:15 p.m. Saturday and reported that the store had been robbed. He said that a burglar wearing a mask threatened him with a knife and stole 800,000 won from the cash register.
But police officers suspected that the staff member and the burglar knew each other and were faking the robbery after watching footage taken by the store’s surveillance camera. The officers then questioned the clerk who confessed that he and the burglar colluded on the crime.
The part-timer was booked on burglary charges. The police are now searching for his friend, currently on the run, discovered to have previously also worked at the same shop.