This month, the police from Kongzhuang Police Station of Xiayi County Public Security Bureau received a report from the public while working at the grassroots level: 2065438 In September 2006, Li, a villager in Kongzhuang Village, captured two thieves who stole apples from his house. He extorted 20,000 yuan from the thief without calling the police. The police quickly conducted an in-depth investigation of the clue and found that the clue was true. On the evening of June 6, 2010, the suspect Li was captured.
After interrogation, the criminal suspect Li confessed that 2065438 one night in September 2006, he caught two thieves stealing on the spot in his apple orchard. After learning that the market value of the apple stolen by the two thieves was only about 800 yuan, they threatened to call the police and arrest them if they did not pay 50,000 yuan. In the end, the two thieves gave Li 20,000 yuan in privacy fees under Li's blackmail. In this case, Li should have been the victim and should have called the police in time and handed the thief over to the public security organs for handling according to law. But he acted opportunistically, trampled on the dignity of the law, and became a criminal suspect.
At present, the criminal suspect Li has been criminally detained in accordance with the law on suspicion of extortion, and the case is under further trial. According to relevant legal documents, the crime of extortion refers to the act of forcibly extorting public or private property by threatening or coercing the victim for the purpose of illegal possession. According to the provisions of Article 274 of the Criminal Law, whoever extorts other people's property, if the amount is relatively large, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also or solely be fined.