A man from the mainland has been arrested for stealing a smartphone left in a taxi, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Chi Weng said at a regular press conference yesterday.
Wong said that the suspect surnamed Shan is in his thirties.
According to Wong, the victim forgot her phone, worth 8,200 patacas, when she got out of a taxi last November. After failing to retrieve the phone herself and suspecting that it had been stolen, she reported the case to the police.
Police officers scrutinised their citywide CCTV surveillance system and identified a passenger, Shan, who they assumed to have picked up the phone later that day from the cab. Shan was arrested when he re-entered Macau through the Barrier Gate checkpoint last Tuesday.
Under questioning, he admitted to stealing the phone and claimed that it was now in his flat in the mainland.
The suspect has been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), facing a theft-by-finding charge, Wong said.
This undated handout photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday shows the theft-by-finding suspect being escorted by PSP officers to a police station in Taipa.
