Crime | Woman lied to police to avoid paying loans to creditor

A 35-year-old female non-resident worker, who is from Guangdong province, faked a story about having been robbed, which she told to the police force in order to avoid payments to her creditors, the Judiciary Police (PJ) disclosed yesterday during a press conference.
According to the police report, the suspect, who was a cashier at a local supermarket, reported her fake story to the Public Security Police Force (PSP) October 11 and was later taken into custody after the police found out she was lying.
The suspect, surnamed Mo, originally reported to the PSP that, on the night of October 11, she had been robbed by a male stranger close to the Outer Harbor. A PSP officer happened to pass by the scene, where he immediately asked the woman about the incident.
She told the officer that a man had just taken her wallet, robbing her of MOP7,500 as well as of her mainland identity card. During a short investigation while in the presence of the lady, the officer began to doubt the story because some of the details provided did not match with the crime scene. Noticing that the woman looked relatively panicked, the officer asked for further details.
The suspect then confessed to the police that she had faked the robbery story. According to the PJ statement, the suspect had lost all her money while gambling in a middle-sized casino located at ZAPE prior to the reporting time.
When she was walking out of the casino, a man approached her offering to loan her money. Mo then borrowed MOP100,000 from the man and went inside to gamble again. The man did not leave the woman’s side while she gambled. Mo lost all of the borrowed money.
After losing the money, and knowing that the loaner was next to her, she went out of the casino and noticed a police officer nearby. Taking the opportunity, she faked the robbery story. Mo thought that by reporting to the police, she would not need to pay the money back. The police are still investigating the man who allegedly lent the money to Mo.
Separately, the police also disclosed a case of a Hong Kong man in his twenties charged with the crime of aggravated assault for attacking a police officer.
The incident took place October 16 when the suspect was taken to the police station for investigation. The Hong Kong resident, while being investigated, shouted in the police station and cursed the officer who was conducting the investigation.
The suspect reportedly punched the police officer, which caused injury to the officer’s left eye. He was then taken into custody. During his time behind bars, the suspect continuously kicked the door of his room until it became damaged.

Mainland siblings caught stealing together

Two mainland siblings were caught by police while stealing together, the Public Security Police Force (PSP) revealed. The duo, surnamed Yang, consists of a female and her younger brother, aged 52 and 49 years old, respectively. They were caught last Sunday at Largo da Sé. The police noticed the duo consistently observing pedestrians and then throwing handbags into a trash bin. The police officers followed the duo to another street and noticed them throwing more bags into bins again. The police approached the siblings to question them, upon which they confessed to having stolen the aforementioned bags a few days prior. Julie Zhu