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Theft of laptop computer fetches 22-month jail for Filipino

29 August 2025

 

Stolen laptop brings stiff jail term for Filipino  

A jobless Filipino was jailed today for 22 months after he pleaded guilty at the District Court to stealing a laptop computer.

The penalty meted on Salvador Bermejo by Judge W.K. Kwok was heavier than for ordinary theft because he committed it by breaking into a shop in Olympian City in Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon, to steal the computer valued at $8,400 on July 24, 2024.

As a result, he was charged with burglary.

Basahin ang detalye!

A police complaint quotes a section in the Theft Ordinance which 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. It is punishable by up to 14 years in jail.

Bermejo, 30 has been in detention since his arrest in July 2024 and consequent appearances at West Kowloon Court, after which the case was elevated to the District Court on Jan 16 this year.

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 for his sentencing at 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 had two earlier drug convictions.

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