A woman accidentally dropped her mobile phone when riding a motorbike across Sai Van Bridge towards the Macau peninsula, which was then picked up but thrown away by a local Filipino, resulting in a loss of 2,500 patacas, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon said yesterday.
According to yesterday’s regular press conference, upon receiving a report from the victim about the loss of her mobile phone on the bridge on March 8, the Public Security Police launched an investigation, which identified, thanks to the police forces’ citywide CCTV camera system, a male motorcyclist, who stopped in the bridge’s motorcycle lane and picked up the lost mobile phone.
The theft-by-finding suspect, surnamed Etom, works for a hotel in Taipa, according to Wong, who noted that the Public Security Police arrested him at his workplace on Monday.
Under questioning, according to Wong, Etom admitted to picking up the mobile phone from the bridge and planning to keep it, but after getting home, he discovered that he couldn’t turn it on, so he threw it away.
The Public Security Police have transferred Etom to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), facing a theft-by-finding charge.
This undated handout photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday shows police officers escorting the theft-by-finding suspect to a Taipa police station for questioning.
