A local male sexagenarian was arrested last week for stealing a smartphone in a car park in early June, Public Security Police (PSP) spokeswoman Lai In Hong said during a regular press conference yesterday.
The jobless suspect is surnamed Se.
According to Lai, a local woman reported to the police on June 4 that she lost her smartphone worth 2,500 patacas after she parked her car in the car park of a residential building in Avenida Marginal do Lam Mou. She returned to the car park but could not find her smartphone so she reported the case to the police.
Investigating police officers identified Se as the suspect and confirmed that he lives in the building of the car park and told him to go to a police station on July 30 for questioning. Se admitted that he stole the smartphone because of greed. He found the smartphone on the ground of the car park, picked it up and threw away the SIM card and phone cover. PSP officers seized the smartphone in Se’s flat, according to Lai.
Meanwhile, a non-resident worker was arrested on Sunday for stealing a MACAU Pass and spending the 74 patacas on the card, according to Lai.
The 20-year-old suspect from the mainland surnamed Yuan told the police that he is an odd-job man.
Lai said a local man reported to the police on May 7 that he lost his MACAU Pass in late April. The victim discovered his card’s had been used by another person when he checked the balance that day. PSP officers discovered the card had been used at least five times, totalling 74 patacas, in late April and May 7 for shopping and bus fares.
PSP officers arrested Yuan at a bus stop in Avenida da República on Sunday. Yuan confessed that he picked up the card in the area of the Ruins of St. Paul’s in late April and used it.
Se and Yuan have been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), both facing theft-by-finding charges.
