The Public Security Police (PSP) transferred a Philippine man to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) for his theft-by-finding charge on Monday, involving a mobile phone worth around 10,000 patacas and 100 patacas in cash, a PSP spokesperson said yesterday in a regular press conference.
The suspect in his fifties is a Philippine domestic helper working in Macau, the spokesperson said.
According to the spokesperson, PSP officers received a report on Sunday that the victim’s phone worth about 10,000 patacas was lost, along with the 100 patacas in cash inside the case of the phone, which was suspected to have been picked up by someone and taken from a chair outside a restaurant on Calçada do Gamboa (夜呣斜巷).
After scrutinising the police forces’ citywide CCTV camera system, the Public Security Police identified the suspect and arrested him on Monday near Rua de Santo António (花王堂街) and found the phone in his pocket, the spokesperson said.
Under questioning, the suspect admitted to picking up the phone and keeping the money, the local victim had lost, and acknowledged that he did it out of greed, the spokesperson said.
This undated photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday shows PSP officers escorting the Philippine theft suspect to a police station.
