Police have requested an arrest warrant for the eldest son of former Gyeonggi Province governor Nam Kyung-pil, who was arrested on charges of using methamphetamine.
Gyeonggi Yongin Dongbu Police Station said on the 25th that it had applied for an arrest warrant for Nam (32), the eldest son of former governor Nam, on charges of violating the Narcotics Control Act.
Nam is suspected of administering methamphetamine once in an apartment in Giheung-gu, Yongin-si on the 23rd. Nam’s family, who were in the house at the time, reported him to the police, saying, “It looks like he did drugs.” It is known that former Governor Nam was absent.
The dispatched police arrested Nam as a red-handed criminal and identified several syringes that appeared to have been used to administer methamphetamine. As a result of a simple drug test on the syringe, methamphetamine was detected. At the time of arrest, Nam refused to take a urine and hair test from the police, but was later reported to have cooperated with urine collection. The police are planning to send Nam’s hair and urine to the National Institute of Scientific Investigation to request an appraisal on whether or not he took the drug.
The interrogation of the suspect before the arrest of Mr. Nam (warrant review) is scheduled to be held at the Suwon District Court at 3:00 pm on the 25th.
In 2017, Nam was also arrested and indicted for taking methamphetamine or smoking hemp several times at home in Beijing, China and Gangnam-gu, Seoul, and was sentenced to 3 years in prison and 4 years probation the following year. In 2014, he was indicted without detention for assaulting and harassing his successors during his military service, and was sentenced to 8 months in prison and 2 years probation by a military court.
