Crime | Uber motorist working without a valid driver’s license

The Public Security Police Force (PSP) have found a resident working as an Uber driver while he was not qualified to drive as he did not possess a valid driver’s license.
The information was aired during a press conference held yesterday at the Judiciary Police (PJ) headquarters.
According to the information from PSP, on October 28 around 1 p.m. a police patrol was assigned a crackdown on Uber operations. The patrol identified a car driving on the Estrada do Pac On in Taipa as an Uber vehicle from the fact that all the passengers were seated in the back and no passenger was in the front seat.
Ordered to stop and questioned, the passengers recounted that they had booked the ride through the mobile app and paid for the ride via a credit card.
The driver confessed that he used the mentioned application to his advantage and was running a car-hailing service. He had picked up the passengers at Taipa’s Temporary Ferry Terminal.
Worst than the fact that he was providing a service considered to be illegal, was that the police found that the driver was not legally able to drive and more, he had previously been caught driving illegally four times since December 2008.
On the last time he was caught, in May this year, he had been sentenced to two months of imprisonment, and his license was suspended for a period of 18 months.
The 38-year-old local resident was presented to the Public Prosecutions Officer (MP).
In a separate case, PSP reported that another Macau resident, (32) unemployed, was taken into custody on grounds of theft. He had entered a supermarket located on the Avenida do Dr Rodrigo Rodrigues in ZAPE area on October 30 around 9:30 p.m. and noticing that since one of the cabinets used to keep the most expensive alcoholic beverages safe had the keys still in the lock, he took the opportunity to steal four bottles of wine, stashing them in a black backpack. He also stole beauty products and tried to leave the shop without being noticed. He was able to pass the cashier area without paying but he was asked by the security of the shop to show the contents of his bag and they then called the police.
The stolen goods were worth around MOP1,500.

Drug dealer operating in NAPE arrested by PJ

After about one month pursuing a suspect, the Judiciary Police (PJ) has succeeded and arrested him on the accusation of drug dealing.
According to the information from the police the man (55), a resident from mainland China, was a recorded and wanted suspect of the PJ for about one month. He was suspected of smuggling drugs into the region and selling them to casino gamblers.
On October 28 he entered the territory in the possession of drugs and was followed, where through the surveillance the PJ were able to catch him in act of selling the drugs.
He was caught with 12 packages of Methamphetamines (Ice), with a total weight of 14.8 grams, as well as other instruments used to process and divide the drugs.
It is calculated that the drugs apprehended have a market value of about MOP50,000.
The suspect was sent to the Public Prosecution Office (MP) under the accusation of drug trafficking. In a separate case, the PJ reported a complaint from a pawnshop over a fraudulent sale of fake watches.
The case goes back to June 20 when a man from the mainland pawned a wristwatch in a pawnshop from which he took HKD20,000 in cash. Later the same man returned to the shop to request a further HKD10,000 under the guarantee of the same product a request that was granted by the shop keeper.
On October 21 the same man returned to the same pawnshop not to pick up his watch left in June but instead to leave another from which he took  the amount of HKD30,000 once again.
More recently when the shop staff was inspecting in detail the uncollected products left in the shop they noticed that both of the watches left under that person’s name were in fact counterfeit, reporting the case to the PJ claiming a loss of HKD60,000.
The authorities have not yet found the previous owner.