Crime | Valentine’s ‘till chips do us part’

A couple from the mainland had an adventurous Valentine’s Day in Macau, according to information released yesterday by the Judiciary Police (PJ).
The eventful journey started on February 9 when a woman from mainland China who had travelled to Macau two days earlier, called her partner at home, saying that she had lost all her money in the casino and needed him to provide her with money in order to return home.
The man decided to head to Macau himself, bringing the money that the woman allegedly needed (HKD50,000). On February 11, he arrived in town. However, his partner soon persuaded him to try “their luck” and recoup her previous losses.
The couple spent the proceeding days gambling in Macau until the early hours of yesterday. Having lost the money he brought, the man took a break in the hotel room where he was keeping an extra HKD250,000 that he had brought with him on the trip.
Surprisingly, when he woke up, he noted that a good portion of the funds was missing (HKD200,000). His partner had also vanished.
The man then decided to file a complaint to the PJ, revealing the entire story. After a brief investigation, the woman was found only a few hours later in a local casino, gambling away what was left of the HKD200,000. She admitted to stealing the money and was taken into custody by the police.
In a separate case reported by the Public Security Police Force (PSP), nurses of the Kiang Wu Hospital alerted an officer on duty to a case related to the consumption of drugs.
A woman had rushed into the emergency room showing signs of a seriously altered mental state. Tests performed at the hospital revealed the presence of cocaine, “ice” and “ecstasy” in her system.
The woman (21), a tourist from mainland China was accompanied by a man (43), also a tourist, from the US. According to her statement, he gave her the drugs.
The man denied the accusation and agreed to take the police to his hotel room so that they could search it.
In the room, the police found one banknote of MOP10 with marks of a white powder suspected to be cocaine, however this has yet to be confirmed.
The man said he met the woman in a local nightclub in Cotai. After meeting they spent time together, with her staying at his hotel room. It was while she was there that she began to feel ill, and he took her to the hospital. He categorically denies being the source of the drugs for which she tested positive. The case continues to be investigated.