​Masked rider caught stealing stuffed toys worth $9,750

By Park Sae-jin Posted : August 7, 2017, 16:27 Updated : August 8, 2017, 10:13

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A masked rider was caught and charged with robbery after stealing cash from coin exchanging machines located inside toy vending machine stores.

A 35-year-old robber, identified by his surname Ahn, was caught in Ansan, a southern satellite city of Seoul, for breaking into 16 coin exchange machines inside the stores with a crowbar, stealing about 11 million won (about 9,750 US dollars) last month, police said in a statement Monday.

The masked rider pulled elaborate jobs, moving by a motorbike and changing his clothes each time to evade a police hunt. The police said Ahn thought the unmanned vending machine stores were an easy target.

Boosted by the popularity of smartphone game Pokemon Go, the number of unmanned toy vending machine stores grew explosively. According to government data, there are 1,881 vending machine stores full of Pokemon toys in May, compared to 147 in September last year. Because many stores are unmanned, they were often robbed.
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