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A Filipina is spending Christmas in jail after the Kowloon City court adjourned a case accusing her of stealing a wallet from a HK resident who had checked into a hotel, and using the enclosed credit cards to make six purchases all over Kowloon.
Mylene Navarro, 48 and unemployed,
was remanded in jail by Acting Principal Magistrate Ko Wai-hung after she
appeared Tuesday (Dec. 24) on one charge of theft and six charges of obtaining property
by deception.
A police complaint alleged that Navarro’s
offenses began with the theft of a wallet, along with a mobile phone and a
Rolex Watch – all valued at $96,092.50 last Nov. 23 at a room in Rainbow City Inn on
Pitt Street in Yau Ma Tei.
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The wallet contained an American Express credit card, a
Mastercard issued by Hang Seng Bank, UnionPay card issued by Hang Seng Bank, a
Mastercard issued by HSBC, and a Mastercard issued by Standard Chartered Bank.
These credit cards were used to make six purchases totalling
$6,279 within the same day, for which police brought six charges against her of
obtaining property by deception.
The police complaint said the first purchase of $1,204 was made at a CircleK shop on Jordan Road in Yau Ma Tei, using the Standard Chartered credit card.
The second purchase of $2,292 was made
at a 7-Eleven store on Bowring St. in Yau Ma Tei, using the Standard Chartered
credit card.
The third purchase of $227 was made
at a 7-Eleven store at the Prince Edward MTR station, using the HSBC credit
card.
The fourth purchase of $204 was made
at a 7-Eleven store on Jordan Road in Yau Ma Tei, using the HSBC credit card.
She then went to a McDonald’s
restaurant at Yen Chow St in Sham Shui Po, using the Standard Chartered credit
card to pay her bill of $138.
Finally, she went shopping at a
Wellcome store on Lai Chi Kok Road in Mong Kok, using the American Express
credit card to pay her bill of $2,214.
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