A domestic helper from the Philippines was arrested last week for stealing someone’s purse in a supermarket in Taipa last Thursday, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon said at a press conference on Monday.
The 60-year-old suspect surnamed David told the police that she works as a live-in maid for a family in Taipa.
According to Wong, a woman reported to the Public Security Police last Thursday that she had lost her purse containing cash equivalent to about 2,000 patacas in a supermarket in Rua de Évora in Taipa earlier that day. She told the police that she went shopping in the supermarket and left her purse on the cashier counter. She returned to the supermarket and tried but failed to find it.
Wong said PSP officers scrutinised the supermarket’s CCTV footage and nearby area and discovered that a woman took the purse, put it in her shopping trolley and left the supermarket. The police identified David and arrested her in a flat in Rua de Seng Tou in Taipa. Under questioning, David admitted to stealing the purse out of greed. She kept the ill-gotten cash in her own purse. PSP officers seized the victim’s purse, which she had kept and the cash that it had contained.
David has been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), facing a theft-by-finding charge, according to Wong.
This undated handout photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) on Monday shows the Filipina theft suspect being escorted by PSP officers to a PSP station in Taipa.
This undated handout photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) on Monday shows evidence seized from the Filipina theft suspect such as a shopping strolley, the clothes she wore when committing the theft, two purses and cash in various currencies.
