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An unemployed Filipina has found that she will be taken to the District Court over charges of stealing a wallet, a Rolex watch and mobile phone from a local man inside a hotel; then using his credit cards to buy groceries from convenience stores and a snack.
Magistrate Tsang Hing-tung today formalized the transfer of the case of Mylene Navarro, 48, from the Kowloon City Court after the prosecutor said the documents required were ready for the next hearing at District Court on Nov 4.
He advised her to apply for legal aid and do so right away so she could prepare for her case.
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In the first charge Navarro is accused of stealing a mobile phone, a Rolex watch and a wallet from a Chinese man in a hotel room in Yau Ma Tei.
Yau Ma Tei Police alleged that Navarro took the three items,
worth about $96,095.50 and owned by a certain Lau, from a room in
Rainbow City Inn on Pitt St. in Yau Ma Tei on Nov. 23 last year.
The wallet contained, among other things, five credit cards that would lead her to allegedly commit six fraud offenses by using them on a one-day shopping spree.
Fraud is punishable with 14 years in prison under section 16A of the Theft
Ordinance.
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The six fraud charges were originally labelled as “obtaining property by
deception” for which section 17 of the Theft Ordinance prescribes a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
But apart from allegedly stealing the wallet, the police
said Navarro went to a Seven-11 store on Bowring Street and ran up a
bill for $2,292.50 which she paid by using a credit card issued by the Standard
Chartered bank to Lau.
She then allegedly used Lau’s credit card issued by Hongkong and
Shanghai Banking Corp. in buying $204 worth of products at a Seven-11 store on
Jordan Road.
Navarro then allegedly went to a Circle K store on Jordan Road
and charged $1,204 worth of products to Lau’s Standard Chartered Bank
Mastercard.
She again allegedly used the credit card in paying $138 for
a meal at a McDonald’s restaurant on Yen Chow St. in Sham Shui Po.
Navarro allegedly used Lau’s HSBC Mastercard a fifth time when she bought
$227 worth of items at another Seven-11 shop at the MTR Prince Edward station.
Finally she allegedly bought groceries at a Wellcome Store
on Lai Chi Kok Road in Mong Kok, running up a bill for $2,214 which she charged
to Lau’s American Express card.
