An armed robbery occurred at a pawnshop located at Avenida da Praia Grande in central Macau yesterday. The heist took place in the early hours of the morning leaving a male employee of the shop with several injuries, the Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson revealed yesterday during a press conference.
According to the PJ, the robbery occurred at around 2:30 a.m. when a Mandarin-speaking man entered the shop and asked to exchange some currency into HKD. He also asked to buy a wristwatch. That prompted the employee of the shop, a local man aged 26, to begin to leave the safe room where he is usually located.
As the door opened, the attacker forced his way into the room and started to attack the shopkeeper with a baton stun gun, a bat that works also as a “taser” producing an electric shock. Several strikes to the head and chest with such a weapon caused the employed to become temporarily paralyzed.
The man then took all the money he could from the cashier, an amount of around HKD300,000 and fled the scene.
A few moments later, when he had recovered, the employee managed to call the police who came to the shop and took the him to the hospital where he is still is being treated for his injuries.
After the PJ commenced its investigation on the case, it was determined that the same suspect had been in the shop previously at 1:13 a.m. and had stayed for just one or two minutes, returning at 2:36 a.m. when the attack took place.
The PJ does not yet have any information on the suspect.
In a separate case, also reported by the PJ, the police stated they found and detained a man who had been performing a job-seeking swindle.
The man (50) from the mainland was pretending to be a senior staff member from a hotel, claiming to have the authority to hire new staff.
The man was caught by police while trying to exit Macau at the border gate, and was being investigated following the complaint of a woman (38) from the mainland who claimed to have been scammed of RMB30,000 back in late January of this year. The suspect was taken to the Public Prosecutions Office accused of swindling.
Couple alleges taxi kidnap
A COUPLE claims to have been kidnaped by a taxi driver on the evening of March 23. The incident occurred around 10 p.m. when the couple entered a taxi parked in front of Beverly Plaza Hotel. The driver then refused to provide transportation and left the taxi, locking the passengers inside. The man used his mobile to call the police. Following the arrival of the police officer, the taxi driver unlocked the car, finally letting the passengers out. After the case was transferred to the PJ, the driver (38), upon questioning by police, said he had no intention of locking the passengers in, claiming not to deliberately have done so. He also said that he refused the transportation because the passengers looked too drunk. Nevertheless, the police believe there is enough evidence to charge the taxi driver for illegal detention of the passengers, and have forwarded the case to the MP.
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