Police yesterday announced their arrest of Hung Feng-wen (
They denied however that the arrest had been made for Hung's own protection although Chang had said that Hung had betrayed him and had threatened to hunt him down and kill him.
Hung was arrested in Kaohsiung City while on his way home by officers from the National Police Agency's Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) early yesterday morning.
Hung's wife was also detained though she is not at the moment suspected of involvement in or likely to be charged with any crime.
Chang forwarded letters to several Chinese-language newspapers yesterday claiming he had figured out that Hung had told the police of his whereabouts leading to the biggest police-gangster shootout in Taiwan's history in Kaohsiung County on July 26.
In the letter, Chang said that he was very upset about Hung's actions since he had treated Hung like an elder brother for 12 years and he trusted him with all his heart. As a result, he could not believe that Hung could have aided the police in trying to locate him. Chang also warned Hung that he would hunt him down and shoot him.
To identify himself and confirm the authenticity of the letters, Chang also affixed his fingerprint.
CIB Deputy Commissioner Kao Cheng-sheng (
"Hung has worked with Chang and is involved in several shooting cases. His arrest has nothing to do with the letter allegedly from Chang. Meanwhile, we also need to keep his wife in custody because she showed up at various crime scenes. We need to figure out whether she is also involved," Kao said. "In addition, we have not confirmed whether the letter was really Chang's work."
Kao said that the fingerprint could not be identified because it is not clear enough. He also said that Hung had never helped police try to arrest Chang.
"The battle with Chang in Kaohsiung on July 26 was an accident," Kao said. "Hung did not help us on that. We knew that Chang would be there according to our investigation and information from our undercover police officers."
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