A North Korean defector who escaped to the South more than a decade ago was detained after attempting to cross back into North Korea on a stolen bus, police said.

South Korean police detained the man after he crashed the bus near a heavily guarded border.

A North Korean defector was arrested in South Korea after attempting to cross the heavily fortified border back into his country using a stolen bus. The man, in his 30s, stole the vehicle from a garage in Paju,

Police applied for an arrest warrant on Wednesday against a North Korean defector who hijacked a bus and attempted to cross the border back to North Korea through the Unification Bridge in Gyeonggi.

A man who defected from North Korea reportedly stole a bus in an attempt to go back over the border from South Korea. The media in South Korea says it happened 1:30 a.m. when the man stole the bus and then rammed it into a barricade on a bridge near the DMZ.