A local man was arrested last Monday for stealing four mobile phones, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Chi Weng said during a regular press conference yesterday.
The suspect surnamed Lin is in his fifties. He told the police that he is jobless.
According to Wong, on March 6, an employee at a restaurant on Avenida de Artur Tamagnini Barbosa (巴波沙大馬路) reported that his mobile phone worth 3,300 patacas had disappeared. He had left it on a chair next to the cashier’s counter while working. After reviewing the restaurant’s surveillance footage, it was revealed that a man, later identified as Lin, had stolen the phone after having a meal there.
On March 9, a woman reported that she had lost her mobile phone worth 3,000 patacas, while shopping in a shop on Rua da Praia do Manduco (下環街). She had placed her phone in her shopping trolley before it disappeared. The police identified Lin as having stolen it through the shop’s surveillance footage.
The police arrested Lin in Nam Van last Tuesday and found three mobile phones in his possession. One of the phones belonged to the woman, another belonged to a female friend of the suspect’s mother, which he had stolen from their living room during her visit and was valued at 4,000 patacas, while the third was a phone he claimed as his own but could not unlock, leading to suspicions that it was also stolen. He also told the police that he had sold the man’s phone in Hong Kong.
According to Wong, Lin has been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), facing a theft charge.
This undated handout photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday shows PSP officers escorting the suspect to the Nam Van Police Station.
