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| Coronel who admitted 2 theft charges, was also put on probation apart from the drug treatment order |
An unemployed Filipina resident has escaped a jail sentence,
and was instead put on probation and sent for drug abuse treatment, after
admitting two theft charges in Kowloon
City
Sheryl Coronel, 46, was charged with stealing, along with
British National Alexander O O’Neill, assorted grocery items worth a total of
$557.70 from Wellcome Supermarket on Queen’s Road West, Hong Kong Island
She also admitted to stealing some clothing items from
H & M shop at Gala Place
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Coronel and O’Neill escaped during a chase after the grocery
heist but were separately attested later on. They were both charged in Eastern Court
The next day, Coronel appeared before Magistrate Ada Yim in Kowloon City
Yim delayed the sentencing to wait for a drug addiction
treatment report on Coronel and to consolidate her two theft cases.
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At the resumption of the hearing today, Yim issued a
15-month probation order and also a 15-month drug treatment at the government’s
drug addiction treatment centre for Coronel for her two theft convictions.
Also sent to the drug treatment centre today was first-time
offender J. Rasco, 50, who is also a Filipino Hong Kong resident.
Rasco pleaded guilty on May 15 to stealing two bags of
grocery items worth $976.30 from a Taste supermarket in Whampoa Garden
Yim spared Rasco from a jail term and ordered him treated
for a year at the drug addiction treatment centre.
In mitigation, the court heard that Rasco, who is jobless,
was separated from his wife five years ago and has four children, the youngest of
whom is 14 years old.
He was arrested by two police officers around 9:30pm on Feb 2,
2019, after which he admitted stealing the grocery items.
Rasco’s wallet also yielded a Dah Shing Bank/ Union Pay bank
card that a local woman reported to have lost in To Kwa Wan, Kowloon
He claimed he just found the bank card which he used on the
MTR twice.
