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Three packs of chocolates worth $119.70 became 17 times more expensive for a Filipina domestic helper after she pleaded guilty to shoplifting them from a grocery store.
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Maribel Larioza, 54 years old, was fined $2,000 in West
Kowloon Court today for theft.
This was exactly the amount she posted as bail to avoid being
detained while the case was being heard.
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Principal Magistrate Don So imposed the penalty after noting
that Larioza had paid for candies she had also bought, but not the chocolates.
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Larioza was charged after she took the chocolates without
paying, from a ParkNShop store in Mei Foo Sun Chuen in Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon on
June 17, 2023.
She was charged with violating Section 9 of the Theft
Ordinance.
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Friends who came with her to the court expressed relief that
she was not jailed.
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| PADALA NA! |
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