JAILED FOR TRYING TO STEAL PHONE AFTER LOSING MONEY AT CASINO
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JAILED FOR TRYING TO STEAL PHONE AFTER LOSING MONEY AT CASINO
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SINGAPORE - An Indonesian man who lost about $1,000 - all the money he had with him - at Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) has become the first to resort to crime after a blowout at the casino.
The unemployed Indonesian tried to steal a Samsung Omnia handphone from an undergraduate at Changi Airport, in a last-ditch attempt to return home with some money.
Paulus Djohar, 49, had planned to sell the $500 handphone.
Instead, the court jailed him yesterday for four weeks after he pleaded guilty to theft.
His crime caps a number of casino-related offences committed in the first three days since the casino's opening.
MediaCorp was the first to report, for example, how two Mongolians, aged 45 and 18, were arrested on the second day for cheating by impersonation.
The younger Mongolian had tried to use an older person's passport to enter the casino, which has a minimum age requirement of 21.
In the latest case, however, the target of the crime was not the casino, but a member of the public.
Police investigations revealed that Djohar arrived in Singapore from Malaysia last week with the intention of patronising the casino that was about to open.
After he lost all his money gambling on Monday - the second day of the casino's opening - he decided to steal from passengers at Changi Airport, according to the summary of facts given to court by the Airport Police Division.
Djohar went to the airport on Tuesday at about 7am.
He then approached Ms Lim Tse Min at Terminal 1, who was with a group sending off a friend who was leaving for studies in Australia.
A member of the group saw Djohar brushing his hands across Ms Lim's backpack before walking away quickly.
The witness alerted Ms Lim, who then discovered that her handphone was missing from the side pocket of her backpack.
The duo confronted Djohar and filed a police report.
The other cases reported so far were of five locals who were caught for not paying the entry levy. The Casino Regulatory Authority and RWS are now investigating these cases.
The maximum penalty for this offence is a fine of up to $1,000. Offenders shall also be liable for the $100 levy amount.
From TODAY, Thursday, 18-Feb-2010
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