At the beginning of last month, after a jewelry vendor at Chiayi City’s Chialefu Night Market closed up shop for the night, two thieves snuck into the vendor’s stall and made off with over 300 rings and bracelets. The fuming vendor posted a video of the suspected culprits on the Facebook social media Web site and asked netizens to help conduct a cyber manhunt to catch the thieves. Three days later one of the suspects, a 19-year-old male surnamed Lee, afraid of being found out, turned himself in at a police station. Lee confessed that the cyber manhunt had left him afraid he would be recognized and the pressure he was under meant he was unable to sleep at night.
After an investigation by the police, it was discovered that a total of 12 vendors’ stalls had fallen victim to the suspected thieves. Following up on a lead, the police then arrested another individual — also surnamed Lee and also 19 years old — who is being treated as the suspected accomplice. The entire case of suspected burglary has now been handed over to the Chiayi District Prosecutors’ Office for further investigation.
Chialefu Night Market manager Chen Hui-ming says that before the suspects were located, vendors at the market were anxious and they all breathed a sigh of relief once the case had been cracked. Chen also says that additional CCTV cameras have been installed at the market and that police have increased patrols, so thieves should not think that they would be able to get away with theft again.
Photo: Wang Shan-yEn, Liberty Times
照片：自由時報記者王善嬿
(Liberty Times, translated by Edward Jones)
嘉義市嘉樂福夜市一名賣首飾的攤商，三月初某晚打烊後，遭二名宵小潛入攤位，偷走超過三百件戒指跟手環，攤商氣得將歹徒作案影片張貼到臉書社群，請網友協助「肉搜」抓賊，三天後，涉案的十九歲李姓男子心虛地到派出所自首，供稱因遭肉搜，擔心被認出來，壓力大，晚上都失眠。
警方調查發現，共有十二個攤商受害，循線逮獲另名同齡同姓的共犯，全案依竊盜罪嫌函送嘉義地檢署偵辦。
嘉樂福夜市經理陳惠銘表示，嫌犯沒找到前，攤商都人心惶惶，破案才鬆了口氣，夜市已加裝監視錄影器，警方也加強巡邏，歹徒切莫心存僥倖。
(自由時報記者王善嬿)
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