The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a sales assistant on Wednesday for stealing a 2-carat diamond ring from a jewellery shop, where she worked, and selling it to a pawnshop so that she could repay her gambling debts, a PJ spokesperson said during a special press briefing in Zape yesterday.
According to the PJ spokesperson, the suspect is a local 32-year-old resident who had been arrested before for stealing gaming chips worth HK$100,000 from a casino where she worked.
Although she is waiting for her trial for stealing the gambling chips, she has stolen again, the spokesperson said.
The diamond ring that was stolen and pawned by the suspect is displayed in a police pressroom yesterday. Photo: Iong Tat Choi
