Suspicious Behavior Shakes Mok-dong Apartment Complex

[Anchor]

A man in his 20s has been arrested in Seoul for stealing items while high on drugs at a convenience store. It was later revealed that he was a drug delivery courier who had traveled around various parts of a Mok-dong apartment complex to drop off narcotics.

This is an exclusive report by reporter Kim Gyu-ri.

[Reporter]

A convenience store in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul, on October 18.

A man wandering around the store with his head bobbing takes something out of his pocket, mixes it into a drink, and drinks it before his body begins to tremble violently.

Moments later, the man heads back to the display shelf.

This time, while attempting to steal a mobile phone charger, he is caught red-handed by the police following a report from the convenience store employee.

[Convenience Store Owner: He kept walking around the store, pacing, his eyes looked out of it, and he just didn't seem normal.]

However, while searching the belongings of the man, identified as Mr. A in his 20s, police discovered a large quantity of methamphetamine.

A preliminary drug test also yielded positive results for marijuana and methamphetamine.

Police investigations revealed that Mr. A was a so-called "throw-and-leave" delivery courier responsible for transporting drugs within the drug distribution network.

Investigations showed that after delivering the drugs, Mr. A stopped by the convenience store to mix and drink methamphetamine in a beverage.

What is more, the locations where Mr. A hid the delivered drugs were inside a nearby large-scale Mok-dong apartment complex.

This area is a massive apartment complex housing hundreds of households.

Mr. A concealed drugs in various spots around the apartment complex where residents routinely walk back and forth.

[Apartment Resident: It's shocking. You think to yourself, how could something like that happen even here? I have a grandson and granddaughter, so if something like that happens, it's a big problem.]

Given that all the drugs hidden by Mr. A across the complex have disappeared, police believe that buyers have already retrieved them.

Police have sent Mr. A to prosecutors under detention while pursuing the identities of the individuals who retrieved the drugs that he transported to the apartment complex.

(Camera Action: Lee Sang-hak, Video Editing: Ahn Ye-jin)