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2 jailed after gold shop raid in NE China

Xinhua,March 27, 2018 Adjust font size:

SHENYANG, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Two men have received life and 15-year imprisonment respectively for raiding a gold shop in northeast China's Liaoning Province.

According to the intermediate people's court of Shenyang City, the men broke into a gold shop in Faku County on May 5, 2017. They smashed the counters with hammers and within a minute stole gold accessories worth 714,000 yuan (113,703 U. S. dollars).

Police in Shenyang caught the two men on May 7 and 8, respectively, seizing 2,230 grams of gold items, a handgun and bullets.

One man, surnamed Hu, was sentenced to life imprisonment Monday and his property confiscated. The other man, surnamed Lu, was sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined 50,000 yuan. Enditem

 

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