Taipei Times
Date: Dec 15, 2018
By: Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter

A man known as the “Yongkang Street Mugger” has been charged with committing a violent robbery on Yongkang Street in Taipei’s Daan District (大安) on Nov. 25, in which a woman received knife cuts to her face, just after his release from prison, where he served a four-year sentence for a similar crime.

Taipei prosecutors charged 58-year-old Hu Tong-wen (胡同文) with robbery and assault causing physical harm, saying that he followed the woman, slashed at her face with a box cutter and ran away with her purse.

The incident was captured by surveillance cameras in the area.

Witnesses who ran after the assailant helped to capture Hu a few hours later and police identified him based on the video footage and found a box cutter on him.
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