A group that tried to raid a gambling den they learned about while doing delivery work and seize the stakes has been sentenced to prison terms
According to legal sources on the 17th, the Daejeon District Court Criminal Division 11 (Presiding Judge Park Woo-geun) sentenced A, 24, who was indicted on charges including attempted aggravated robbery, to seven years and six months in prison. B, 18, who was indicted on the same charge, was sentenced to a maximum of three years and a minimum of two years in prison, and C, 32, was sentenced to three years and six months.
A and others are accused of entering a commercial building in Daejeon in May last year and, shouting "We are police conducting a raid," threatening four people playing gostop with a weapon to try to take the stakes. But when police who had actually been dispatched in response to a report appeared at the scene, they fled immediately. In the end, they did not get the stakes. After the failed attempt, they also tried to take money by assaulting a victim at another location and threatening with a weapon.
A was said to be the one who first proposed the crime. After A, who was doing delivery work, learned the location of the gambling den, A reportedly proposed the crime to B, a younger acquaintance from the neighborhood, and to C. A and B took the role of directly threatening the victims, while C kept watch.
The court said, "Several people committed a planned robbery late at night while armed with a weapon, making the culpability very high," and added, "A's violent tendencies reflect poor criminality." It continued, "In the cases of B and C, we considered that they did not lead the crime and that some victims reached settlements with them."