Charged with interfering with office work... Sentenced to 6 months in prison

Charged with interfering with office work... Sentenced to 6 months in prison

(Busan = Yonhap News) Reporter Cha Geun-ho = A prisoner was sentenced to prison for putting underwear and other items in a toilet at a police station, flooding the toilet and assaulting a police officer.

Judge Ho-yeon Lee of the Busan District Court's Criminal Division 11 announced on the 5th that he sentenced Mr. A, a man in his 40s, who was indicted on charges of obstruction of official duties, to six months in prison.

Mr. A was handed over to trial on charges of assaulting two police officers at the Dongrae Police Station detention center in Busan at around 4:15 a.m. on April 16 and interfering with the work of entering the detention center.

At that time, Mr. A put toilet paper and underwear into the toilet of the protection room, clogging the toilet three times and causing toilet water to overflow throughout the detention room.

When the police officer removed his handcuffs to move him to another custody room, he struck the police officer once in the face with his fist.

He also kicked the left knee of another police officer who came up to stop him.

Mr. A was previously released from prison on March 19 after serving time for trespassing at night, and committed this crime less than a month later.

Judge Lee said, "Considering the circumstances and method of the crime, the nature of the crime is poor, and there is a high possibility that he will be criticized for committing the crime again while imprisoned in a detention center for a crime committed during a period of repeated offenses."