VANCOUVER – A man has now been jailed for keying cars in two Lower Mainland cities, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.
Soo Yo Kim has been sentenced to three months jail and three years of probation.
He is well known to police because he pleaded guilty in 2006 to keying cars in Port Coquitlam. In 2005, the then 31-year-old was the prime suspect in about a thousand car-keying cases across Vancouver, Burnaby and Coquitlam.
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In 2006, Kim was found guilty of one count of mischief, but he was charged with 43 counts. The other 42 charges were dropped.
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On Nov. 12, more than 60 cars were keyed in New Westminster in one night. Kim became a subject of interest and as a result the New Westminster Police Department (NWPD) Street Crime Unit started an investigation.
On Nov. 18 they saw Kim damaging vehicles in Burnaby and arrested him.
Kim is a 37-year-old man who lives in Coquitlam. He was charged with mischief over $5,000 for damaging 63 cars in New Westminster on Nov. 12. He was charged with mischief over $5,000 for damaging 66 vehicles in Burnaby on Nov. 18.
“It is very satisfying to have taken this prolific offender off the streets to prevent the public from being further victimized,” says Chief Constable Dave Jones with the NWPD.
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