A Vietnamese man was arrested last Wednesday for stealing a bike in San Kio district, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson said during a regular press conference on Friday.
The spokesperson said that the suspect is surnamed Nguyen, a non-resident worker (NRW), who told police that he is a machine operator in his thirties.
According to the spokesperson, police officers received a report from the owner of the bike saying that his bike, which the owner said was worth 3,200 patacas and parked on the pavement in San Kio district had vanished, despite being locked at that time, suspecting that his bicycle was stolen.
The spokesperson said that after watching the area’s CCTV footage, the police identified the suspect and discovered that he was holding a large pair of scissors when he was walking long the pavement in San Kio district in the evening of last Sunday, before he cut the lock of the bike and stole it.
On Wednesday, police officers found the lost bicycle in the carpark of an industrial building near the crime scene and arrested the suspect.
The suspect confessed that he wanted to have a bicycle for transportation and therefore stole it.
The spokesperson said that the suspect faces a theft charge, and has been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP).
This undated handout photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) on Friday shows the Vietnamese theft suspect being escorted by PSP officers to a police station in Nam Van.
