The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a local man on Saturday for stealing two diamond rings worth 300,000 patacas about six years ago from a jewellery shop where he worked at that time, PJ spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a special press conference yesterday.
The suspect, who went to the mainland on the same day after committing the theft and pawning the two diamond rings in May 2013, was arrested on Saturday when he returned to Macau via the Barrier Gate border checkpoint, according to Chan, who identified the suspect as a 36-year-old surnamed Chio.
On May 6, 2013, Chio, who was working as a salesman at the jewellery shop in the city centre at that time, stole the two diamond rings from the display cabinet and the shop’s storeroom while working in the shop, and then right away replaced them with two counterfeits that he had brought with him to the shop, according to Chan.
Judiciary Police (PJ) officers escort the hooded diamond ring theft suspect to a PJ vehicle outside the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday.Photo: Iong Tat Choi
