I'm transferring eight stolen cars home...The plane fare is expensive
Jun 30, 2025
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According to Chinese media Shin Hwang-ha and Hong Kong media South China Morning Post, Chen, from Liaoning Province, was traveling alone in Changsha, Hunan Province.
On May 31, he purchased a flight ticket of about 1,500 yuan (about 280,000 won) to return home and canceled it after judging that the price was high.
After that, Chun stole the vehicle and made up his mind to return to his hometown.
With a previous record of car theft, he broke into an unlocked car dealership at night, stole the key, and fled in a vehicle under repair. In addition, they entered a deserted parking lot, selected an old vehicle, operated a starter, and stole it.
Since June, Chun has moved from Changsha to his northern hometown, stealing a total of eight vehicles from seven cities.
Whenever the vehicle ran out of fuel, it was a method of throwing it away and stealing a new vehicle. It has been confirmed that valuable items inside the vehicle were also stolen to pay for food and highway tolls. In this way, he drove stolen vehicles for more than 14 hours.
Then, on June 2, an employee of an automobile exhibition hall in Wuhan, Hubei Province, found a car worth about 150,000 yuan (28 million won) and a key missing and reported it to the police. Police tracked the stolen vehicle's path and found that the vehicle was heading north.
The next day, on the 3rd, in Hebei Province, Chun injured the owner of the vehicle and fled while trying to steal another vehicle. I fell asleep inside a car in a parking lot in Hebei Province in the early morning of the 4thwas arrested by the police.
According to a police investigation, the total value of eight vehicles used by Chun amounted to about 1 million yuan (about 190 million won), and all stolen vehicles were recovered.
Currently, he is in police custody, and under Chinese criminal law, serious car theft crimes can be sentenced to more than 10 years in prison and fined.
Netizens are responding to "1500 yuan, "If I had used that tenacity for something else, I would have succeeded", "It's amazing that it hasn't been caught for 14 hours".
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
