A man from the mainland has been arrested for stealing a smartphone left on a shuttle bus, Public Security Police (PSP) Wong Chi Weng said during a regular press conference yesterday.
Lei said that the suspect surnamed Yu is in his thirties. He told the police that he works as a manager.
According to Wong, the mainland victim forgot his phone, worth 8,900 patacas, when he got off a shuttle bus travelling to a Cotai casino on May 1. After failing to retrieve the phone himself and suspecting that it had been stolen, he reported the case to the police.
Police officers scrutinised their citywide CCTV surveillance system and identified a passenger, Yu, who they assumed to have picked up the phone later that day from the bus. He was arrested at the Barrier Gate checkpoint last Wednesday.
Under questioning, he admitted to stealing the phone, and claimed that he had thrown the phone away as he could not unlock it.
The suspect has been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), facing a theft-by-finding charge, Wong said.
This undated photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday shows a PSP officer escorting the male theft-by-finding suspect to a police station in Taipa.
