Police on Tuesday arrested a man returning from Singapore at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport for allegedly robbing a lottery store before fleeing the country.
The Taichung City Police Department’s Fourth Precinct said a lottery store on Yungchun E Road in Taichung’s Nantun District (南屯) reported a robbery on Monday.
A man dressed in black and wearing a fully covered helmet had rushed into the shop as it was closing in the early hours of the morning, a shopkeeper said.
Photo courtesy of the Taichung Police Department
The clerk panicked and ran out of the store, the person said, adding that the robber had taken NT$200,000 from the cashier before leaving in the direction of Wurih District (烏日).
Police said they had cordoned off the area, and a forensics team had been dispatched to gather evidence.
CCTV footage showed the suspect traveling toward the Wurih Taichung High Speed Rail Station, police said, adding that they later found an abandoned vehicle near the station.
Footage from surveillance cameras along the road showed that the suspect, alleged to be a man surnamed Hung (洪), arrived at the railway station at about 9pm on Sunday, police said.
After the robbery, the suspect changed his clothes and traveled directly to the Taoyuan airport, police said, adding that records showed that Hung left for Singapore later that night.
Police said that they identified him as a former professional roller skater, and it is likely that he committed the theft to cover gambling debts, adding that they found NT$32,000 and S$8,000 (US$6,051) in his possession when he was arrested.
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