The Taipei Police Headquarters' Chungshan Precinct (
Wang, who was overwhelmingly defeated when she took on KMT lawmaker John Chang in last December's legislative election, is a former TV soap-opera actress who came under the spotlight two years ago when she was widely rumored to be the mistress of Legislator Chang, the illegitimate son of former president Chiang Ching-kuo.
According to police, Wang began to destroy her apartment block's security cameras and the lock with a hammer when she returned home around 10pm on Thursday night.
The management committee of the apartment called the police right away. When the police arrived at the scene, Wang was still trying to destroy one of the security cameras, so the officers arrested her immediately.
In accordance with procedure for handling criminals who were allegedly caught in the act of committing a crime, the police transferred her to the Taipei District Prosecutors' Office (
The prosecutors decided to let her go yesterday afternoon.
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Wang said that the committee sold a picture of her and Cheng to a tabloid-style magazine without her authorization and had told the magazine that she and Cheng were living together. So she had decided to "protect" herself by destroying the cameras.
"They were invading my privacy. I was just protecting myself. What's wrong with that?" she said.
As for the door lock, she said: "They changed the lock every now and then. When I came back late on Thursday night, I discovered that they had done it again. I was just trying to get home."
Wang also filed a libel suit against the committee yesterday over the allegations they made in the magazine article.
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