Man arrested for appropriating lost item

A man in his 20’s has been arrested for keeping a lost item that he picked up at a public location, the Public Security Police Force (PSP) announced yesterday.

Surnamed Lam and reportedly a student, the suspect allegedly appropriated a set of headphones.

The PSP received the report Jan. 12.

The victim reported he had left the white headphones on the seat at a government service center near Estrada de Donna Maria II, after conducting business there.

When he returned to retrieve them, they were gone.

Suspecting they headphones might have been appropriated, the victim reported a loss of MOP2,000 to the PSP.

The suspect admitted to having appropriated the headphones out of greed. He returned the item after being interrogated and has been charged with illegally keeping lost items.

In another case, a mainland woman has reported the loss of HKD14,000 in a currency exchange fraud.

The suspect, surnamed Chen and in his 50’s, is a mainland resident and reportedly unemployed.

On March 10, the woman told the PSP she had been scammed.

On the same evening, the woman had encountered the suspect in a casino in Cotai and was told currency exchange services were available.

Later the same evening, the two met at a restaurant in the resort where the casino is located, and agreed to exchange RMB46,550 for HKD50,000.

The woman received a block of HKD banknotes after wiring the RMB to the man, who left immediately.

Counting the cash, the woman realized she had received only HKD36,000, but she could not contact the man, so she approached the police.

The next day the police found the man in a Central District hotel.

He admitted to shortchanging the woman to scam her. The PSP charged him with swindling.

The Judiciary Police (PJ) has announced a case of credit card abuse, in which the victim lost MOP53,000.

On March 11, the victim, a middle-aged local woman, alleged to police her credit card had been abused.

She said that between 3:52 a.m. and 10:57 a.m. on the same day, she had received 14 text messages from her bank, indicating the same number of online transactions on her credit card.

Sure that she had not lost the credit card, nor lent it to anyone nor made online purchases, the victim suspected the card might have been abused. She called her bank immediately and instructed the bank to suspend the card.

The victim has also declined to pay the amount to the bank.

She reported the case to the PJ to signal she had not made the concerned spending. In addition, she wants the suspect held accountable.