A man who secretly added a strange substance to a drink that a female employee at a cafe was drinking was caught on surveillance camera, prompting the police to launch a search.
On July 5, JTBC’s current affairs program Scandal Supervisor released surveillance footage taken on the afternoon of July 2 in a cafe in Yongsan-gu, Seoul. The footage was provided by a cafe employee working alone that day. She had left her coffee briefly and, upon returning and drinking it again, noticed a foul fishy smell and immediately spat it out.
She recalled, “I always drink iced Americano, and the moment I took a sip through the straw, it was disgusting and foul. I spat it out as soon as I swallowed it. Then I put my nose close to the coffee and noticed a strange smell I had never encountered in our coffee cafe.”
At that moment, something suddenly struck her. She remembered a male customer who had come alone, ordered a drink and bread, and stayed for about an hour, behaving suspiciously.
The man had been glancing at her while jotting something down or fiddling with his cell phone, which made her suspicious that he might have tampered with her drink. She checked the surveillance camera, and sure enough, the footage showed the man putting something into her coffee.
In the footage, a man is seen taking an item out of his bag, placing it into his pocket, and then approaching the counter. As the woman takes orders and heads into the kitchen, he discreetly adds the item from his pocket into her coffee. After doing so, he returns to his seat and watches intently as she drinks her coffee.
While the woman was reviewing the surveillance footage, the man disappeared. She immediately reported the man to the police. Soon, the forensics team arrived and took the leftover drink, straw, and cup the man had used.
The man had used a mobile coupon, not a credit card, to purchase a drink and bread at the cafe, and it was suspected that he may have acted deliberately to avoid identification.
The police have secured the surveillance footage to track the man’s movements and have applied for a search warrant to obtain information about the mobile coupon he used.
The woman explained that the incident occurred in front of a women’s university. She mentioned that since the individual involved might repeat the same behavior elsewhere, she provided the video to help prevent further victims.
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