Teenager arrested near Seoul police station with suspected methamphetamine
Translated from Korean and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- Police arrested a teenage girl near Gangnam Police Station in Seoul after finding suspected methamphetamine in her belongings.
- A preliminary drug test was negative, so investigators are pursuing a possession charge rather than drug use.
- Police are investigating how she obtained the drug and whether she actually used it.
A teenage girl was arrested near Seoul’s Gangnam Police Station after police found suspected methamphetamine among her belongings.
Gangnam police said they made the emergency arrest at about 5:30 a.m. on Aug. 28 after responding to a report indicating that a drug user had been detained. The girl was arrested near the police station on suspicion of violating South Korea’s law on controlled narcotics.
A preliminary drug test conducted by police came back negative. Investigators are therefore applying a possession charge rather than a charge for drug use. They plan to examine how the teenager came to possess the methamphetamine and whether she used it.
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Originally published by Dong-A Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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