Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Leong Chi Seng said yesterday during a regular press conference that a Vietnamese woman stole a shop’s blue metal door and sold it for 50 patacas.
According to Leong, the suspect is a 51-year-old jobless woman holding a Vietnamese passport and a stay permit which expires on April 5. Leong noted that a gas stove shop owner reported the case to the police on Monday, saying that on the previous day someone stole the blue metal door of the shop’s roller shutter.
Leong said that at 9 a.m. the owner left the blue door outside his shop in Taipa when he opened up. Leong said that at 10 p.m. when the owner closed the shop, he discovered that the blue door had disappeared, so he checked the shop’s CCTV footage and saw a woman pushing a cart taking the blue door away. Leong noted that the owner claimed that the door cost him 4,000 patacas.
Leong pointed out that the police were able to locate the suspect on Monday, adding that the suspect admitted that she committed the crime and had already sold the blue door for 50 patacas to a junk dealer. Leong noted that the case has been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), and the suspect faces theft charges.
