van in downtown Taipei last month, while one accomplice is still at large. On June 13, as two security guards walked toward a cash delivery van with cash bags outside the Citibank branch at the intersection of Nanjing East Road and Songjiang Road in Taipei, Li Ya-yu, the chief suspect in the robbery case, fired shots into the sky in an attempt to snatch away the money.
Hearing the gun shots, the alerted guards immediately retreated back into the lobby of the bank. Li did not follow into the bank, but fired another shot at the glass door before giving up the robbery plan and jumping on a motorcycle of an accomplice.
Investigators later found an abandoned motorbike and two helmets nearby that could have been used by the robbers. They gathered fingerprint samples and examined images taken by surveillance cameras at the scene.
This Thursday, armed police broke into Li’s residence in the central county of Changhua at around 6:00 a.m. as Li was lying on the bed and his wife was taking a suspected controlled substance.
The chief suspect admitted to the crime after a gun and five bullets were seized in his room. Police suspected that Li committed the crime in order to buy drugs.
The other accomplices were also arrested the same day, except for one accomplice, Hung Chong-yuan, who iss still at large. A search for Hung and any others involved was underway, police said.
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