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| The store where shoplifters operated (Google Maps photo) |
A Filipino couple who shoplifted a particular brand of chocolates popular among OFWs who send home door-to-door boxes, pleaded guilty today at Eastern Court to five counts of theft, but their sentences were put off for five days for further inquiries.
Principal Magistrate Don So withheld the sentences until
Dec. 10 pending a report done on HK resident Zachary Eagle, 28 years old, by
the Drug Addiction Treatment Center and a background report on Loida Figueroa,
49, who uses a recognizance form as identification document.
He also ordered that the two, who are unemployed and have no
fixed abode, be held in jail custody until then.
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A charge for possession of a dangerous drug, for which
Eagle was scheduled to be sentenced based on today’s court list, was not
mentioned in today’s hearing.
The first theft charge accused Figueroa of stealing three boxes,
each containing 36 pieces of Ferrero Rocher chocolates, from the Wellcome supermarket
at the basement of Metropole Bldg., on King’s Road, North Point, last Nov. 8.
She was with a female, Virginia Nasayao, who was not charged.
The second theft charge involved Eagle and Figueroa stealing
five boxes of the same brand of chocolates – three containing 36 pieces and and
two containing 24 -- from the same store on Nov. 10.
On the same day, the two returned to the store and stole
four boxes of of the same chocolates (36 pieces).
Eagle returned to the same store on Nov. 25, and stole another
four 36-piece boxes of Ferrero Rocher chocolates.
The fifth charge involved Figueroa stealing two boxes of Ferrero
Rocher (36 pieces) chocolates.
The prosecutor said Eagle has three previous similar
criminal convictions while Figueroa has nine.
