The Public Security Police (PSP) uncovered early this month two “theft-by-finding” cases that occurred in September, involving a pair of sneakers and a mobile phone with reported losses of 1,300 patacas 10,000 patacas respectively, PSP spokeswoman Lai In Hong said during a regular press conference yesterday.
In the case of the lost sneakers, according to Lai, the Public Security Police pinpointed and intercepted on Tuesday at the Barrier Gate checkpoint a mainland woman in her fifties, surnamed Huang, who stole on September 5 a grey shoebox containing a new pair of sneakers placed by their owner outside a shop on Rua Um do Bairro Va Tai (華大新村第一街).
In the case of the lost phone, Lai noted that a Hong Kong man in his forties, surnamed Long, was intercepted by the Public Security Police at the Taipa Ferry Terminal last Friday after picking up a phone left by a tourist on a bench at a hotel in Cotai and taking possession of it.
Both suspects admitted to their respective offences. While the female suspect handed back the sneakers to the police, the male suspect who claimed he would return the phone had not done so by the time of yesterday’s press conference.
The duo have been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP).
Illegal currency exchange dealer nabbed
Meanwhile, the Judiciary Police on Wednesday arrested at a casino in Cotai another illegal currency exchange dealer from the mainland – a 35-year-old man surnamed Zhou, seizing a total of HK$10,000 in cash and HK$57,400 in casino chips in the operation.
These two undated handout photos provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday show the two theft-by-finding suspects being escorted by police officers to two different police stations in the northern district and Taipa respectively.
