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A Filipino couple who earlier confessed to shoplifting chocolates five times, were given contrasting penalties at the Eastern Court today.
Zachary Eagle, 28 years old and a permanent resident, was
sent to the Drug Addiction Treatment Center with a record of conviction, while Loida
Figueroa, 49, who uses a recognizance form as identification document, was
jailed for four months.
Principal Magistrate Don So handed down the sentence after hearing
a drug possession case against Eagle, together with the theft case against him
and Figueroa, who was sentenced to four months for each of the four thefts she confessed
to, which will run concurrently.
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The drug possession case arose after Eagle was arrested inside the accessible toilet of the Fortress Hill MTR station on King’s Road, North Point, last Sept. 22. Found on him was a plastic bag containing a 0.72 gram ketamine tablet.
The first theft charge, on the other hand, was related to Figueroa's act of stealing three boxes of Ferrero Rocher chocolates, each containing 36 pieces , 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 chocolates (36 pieces).
The prosecutor said Eagle has had three previous similar criminal convictions while Figueroa has nine.
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