Crime | Unknown man breaks into apartment, uses toilet

A Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson reported that an unknown suspect is being sought after a local family reported an intrusion into their home.

The case occurred on the afternoon of Saturday, Jan. 12 around 4 p.m. when the daughter from a family of three living in the apartment arrived home after work and saw that the entrance gate had been unlocked.

According data released yesterday by the PJ during a press conference, the daughter was the last person to leave the apartment that morning around 10 a.m.
and she is certain that she locked the gate and doors.

Seeing the gate unlocked, she initially thought that her parents were in the house. As she entered, she noticed movement and noise coming from the toilet. She reported to police that she knocked on the door and called for her parents but nobody replied.

At the same time, she reached her parents on the phone and realized that they were not in the house, and that the person in the toilet was a stranger.

Scared, she left the apartment. Once she was out,  she remembered that the apartment had a surveillance camera system installed that she could use to view a live feed on her mobile phone.
She decided to turn on the system and a few minutes later she saw the man walking around the house.

Although the family told the police that they did not notice any items or valuables missing from the apartment, the case is being treated as “unlawful entry in apartment with the purpose of robbery.”

In a separate case, the PJ caught a man suspected of fraud regarding currency exchange.

The case was reported on Jan. 11 by the security staff of the Venetian Macao, who were alerted by noise coming from one of the rooms in which a brawl was happening.

Arriving at the scene, the PJ officers confronted two men who were fighting inside the room. One of them explained that he had intended to exchange RMB11,000 for HKD12,100 but after handing the cash to the suspect for him to count, the suspect tried to scam him by keeping it and saying that it belonged to him and that the victim had no way to prove otherwise, leading to the brawl.

After questioning, the suspect admitted to the police that he was involved in an illegal scheme of currency exchange and that he had intended to scam the victim.

He was taken into custody and presented to the Public Prosecutions Office and charged with fraud.