A man from the mainland has been arrested for stealing a smartphone left in a taxi, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Lei Chan Hong said at a regular press conference yesterday.
Lei said that the suspect surnamed Wu is in his thirties.
According to Lei, the local victim forgot her phone, worth 8,200 patacas, when she got out of a taxi on February 13. 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, Wu, who they assumed to have picked up the phone later that day from the cab. He was arrested at the Macau International Airport on Sunday.
Under questioning, he admitted to stealing the phone and claimed that it was now at his home in the mainland.
The suspect has been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), facing a theft-by-finding charge, Lei said.
This undated handout photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday shows police officers escorting the mainland theft-by-finding suspect to a Taipa police station for questioning.
