A man who injected propofol while sitting in a car in the heart of Gangnam was caught by police.
The Seocho Police Station in Seoul said on the 27th that it arrested a man in his 30s, identified only as A, on the spot on suspicion of violating the Narcotics Control Act.
A is accused of injecting propofol around 12 p.m. on the 20th after parking a vehicle on a road in Seocho District, Seoul.
At the time, A's vehicle crawled through an intersection ignoring the traffic signal and stopped in front of a crosswalk.
When the vehicle did not move for more than five minutes, a citizen who found it suspicious reported it to police, and responding officers found A asleep in the car with a syringe needle stuck in the wrist.
A search of the vehicle turned up a syringe containing propofol, and a field reagent test came back positive for drugs. Ketamine, a narcotic analgesic, was also found in an additional search.
Police later asked the National Forensic Service for a detailed analysis. They are also investigating A over the circumstances of the drug injection and the purchase route.