Jeju police officer faces arrest over mishandling of missing person case
JEJU — A Jeju police officer accused of wrongfully closing a missing person case that may have led to the woman's death attended an arrest warrant hearing at a court on the southern resort island Tuesday. The Jeju District Court began the officer's arrest warrant hearing at 2:30 p.m. on charges of dereliction of duty, forgery, falsifying public electronic records and obstruction of official…
On Tuesday, a Jeju police officer faced an arrest warrant hearing at a court on the southern resort island, charged with dereliction of duty, forgery, falsifying public electronic records, and obstructing official duties through deception. The hearing commenced at 2:30 p.m. The officer, who allegedly closed a missing person case that may have resulted in a woman's death, entered the courthouse unnoticed by reporters and others present at the entrance.
The officer stands accused of prematurely closing the case of missing woman, Jang Mi-ran, in May, without verifying her safety, and subsequently removing her information from the police's missing persons profiling system. A body presumed to be Jang's was discovered on the island on Monday. The officer was also found guilty of hastily closing another missing person case last month, whose body, that of a 60-year-old man, was found on Saturday.
He was placed under emergency detention on Saturday but was released on Monday following a court review of the detention's legality.
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