Two USFK Soldiers Arrested for Stealing $54 Jacket
I have been saying this for quite some time now, expect every petty USFK crime to now receive attention from the Korean media:
Two United States Forces Korea soldiers were caught stealing clothes from a shop in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, police said Saturday.
They entered the shop at 11 p.m. Friday, and fled with a jacket priced at 60,000 won ($54), according to Gwangju Dongbu Police Station. Officers, called by the shop’s manager, traced the two and apprehended them.
The two suspects, from an air base in Gyeonggi Province, remained tight-lipped, refusing to answer questions from investigators.
Police are reviewing CCTV footage to help them in their investigation. [Korea Times]
This is not something that should make national news, but like we saw during the 2000-2008 timeframe every USFK petty crime made the news to help create the perception of out of control GI crime. It was common for Koreans to think USFK personnel could commit crimes and fly away back to the US. This caused protests and demands for SOFA revisions.
I long ago showed the problems with the anti-US activists complaints about the US-ROK SOFA and I am still awaiting for one person to point out an example of a crime committed by a GI off duty and the USFK refused to hand him over? The anti-US activists keep complaining about GI’s getting away with crimes and can’t point out a specific example of when this happened.
What I’m wondering ablout is the first conversation the commanding officer has with the first sergeant of these “soldiers… from an air base in Gyeonggi Province”… I’m going to imagine that will be as lit up as the conversations on down the chain of command…
And if not, they all need to be separated under “other than honorable conditions”…
How many soldiers does it take to steal a $54 jacket?
Two. Read the story. 😛
Q: What’s black and white and red all over?
A: Two soldiers stealing a $54 white and red jacket.
I blame Bush.
Shows the attempted thief was not very bright. Hanging out in the same area?
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20181110000036
Actually I am amazed they were able to wake the sleeping Korean police to do anything. Probably only woke up as they were foreign devils reported as the criminals.