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| Stolen laptop lands Filipino in jail |
A jobless Filipino accused of entering a shop inside a mall in Tai Kok Tsui and stealing a laptop computer will have to wait almost seven months in jail before he can plead guilty or not at the District Court.
Salvador Bermejo, 30, faces a robbery charge for entering a furniture
store in Olympian City 2 on July 24, 2024 and stealing its computer valued at $8,400.
Chief District Judge Justin Ko adjourned his case to Aug. 29
for plea.
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Under the Theft Ordinance, which he was accused of violating,
burglary is punishable by up to 14 years in jail.
Bermejo has been in detention since his arrest in July and
consequent appearances at West Kowloon Court, which elevated the case because robbery
was beyond its jurisdiction.
The complaint filed by police cites a section in the Theft Ordinance
that defines burglary as entering any building as a trespasser and steals or
attempts to steal anything or attempts to inflict on any person any grievous
bodily harm.
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Bermejo has been in trouble with the law in recent years.
On July 28, 2022, at Eastern Court he was ordered arrested
after he failed to show up on his sentencing at the Eastern Court, after
earlier pleading guilty to stealing a pair of shoes from a flat in Wanchai on
April 1, 2022.
When he finally showed up in court on Aug. 11, he ended up
being sent to the Drug Abuse Treatment Center after blood tests showed he had
meth in his blood, and told to pay the owner of the shoes $3,300 over nine
months.
Magistrate Jason Wan, who handled the case, also noted that Bermejo
has had two earlier drug convictions.
