Source: Yonhap News
Shin Hye-seong, a member of the idol group Shinhwa, who was arrested for refusing to take a breathalyzer test by the police while driving someone else’s vehicle while intoxicated, overturned the previous explanation that ‘the parking attendant gave the key to another vehicle’.
Shin’s agency said, “Shin had a dinner meeting at a restaurant in Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the 10th. “I mistook it for my own vehicle and boarded it,” he said.
A representative from the company said, “The restaurant pays the parking fee in advance in the evening, and if the parking staff leaves work first, they leave the car key in the car and leave the house. explained that it was.
The agency further explained, “The driver drove the male acquaintance who was a passenger to the house first, and then Shin drove the car himself without a driver and drove home in a drunken state, and fell asleep in the car stopped on the road.” I did.
Earlier, Shin’s management company acknowledged Shin’s drunk driving through the official SNS, saying, “After drinking at a restaurant in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, I got someone else’s car key delivered by the parking staff and drove without knowing it was my car.” claimed.
However, when such an explanation came out, the parking management staff countered, “I have never handed the car key,” and “In the beginning, the parking staff did not receive the car key, but put it in the vehicle.”
Earlier, the Songpa Police Station in Seoul arrested Shin on charges of refusing to take a breathalyzer test at Tancheon 2nd School at around 1:40 a.m. yesterday.
The police, who arrived following receiving a report that “the vehicle was stopped in the middle of the road,” requested a breathalyzer several times, but it is known that Mr. Shin refused to do so.
After confirming that the vehicle in which Shin was riding at the time was owned by another person who reported the theft, the police returned home following receiving a police investigation for regarding two hours yesterday on charges of refusing to take a breathalyzer and vehicle theft.
