Police yesterday arrested a man who allegedly asked a driver at the delivery and errand service company Lalamove to shoot at the New Taipei City offices of Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Lin Shu-fen (林淑芬).
Lin wrote on Facebook that her office in Lujhou District (蘆洲) received a message at 9:15am with a screenshot of a Lalamove order to shoot at the building.
In the instructions, the user told the delivery driver to pick up a gun at another location in the district and “empty the clip” at Lin’s office before returning the firearm to its lockbox.
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The office closed yesterday out of caution, and the incident was reported to police, Lin added.
Speaking to reporters, Lin said the office also received a telephone call from an unknown number saying he was “just joking” and would turn himself in.
“This is no laughing matter,” but a deliberate attempt at instilling fear during an election season, she said.
The Lujhou police precinct in a news release said that officers tracked down a 40-year-old suspect surnamed Kuo (郭) in Taipei at about 11am through interviews and phone records.
The case is to be transferred to the New Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office for investigation on suspicion of endangering public safety through intimidation, it added.
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