The Public Security Police (PSP) arrested a local man last Friday for stealing and reselling 15 structural aluminium frames which were used by an engineering company to build a working platform in Taipa, PSP spokesman Lam Keong said at a regular press conference yesterday.
Lam said that the police received a report from the company last Friday that the aluminium frames, covered with tarpaulin and placed under a footbridge on Avenida da Nave Desportiva, had vanished, reporting a loss of 15,000 patacas.
After scrutinising the citywide CCTV camera systems, according to Lam, the police discovered that the suspect, who is in his sixties, had loaded the aluminium frames on to his van and driven away on November 16 and resold them to a shop on Travessa da Corda on the peninsula last Friday.
PSP officers recovered the aluminium frames from the shop, Lam said. The shopkeeper told the police that he had been told by the suspect last Thursday that as he had retired, he decided to sell the aluminium frames at a bargain price.
The Public Security Police summoned the suspect surnamed Ao Ieong to a police station for questioning last Friday, during which he admitted that due to gambling losses he decided to steal and resell the aluminium frames for 2,000 patacas. The suspect told the police that he had meanwhile gambled away the money.
The suspect has been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), facing a theft charge.
This undated handout photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday shows PSP officers escorting the theft suspect to a police station in Taipa.
