Courier employee jailed two months for stealing customer’s smartphone parcel

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By Dorcas Ting

KUCHING, Jan 22: A courier company employee was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment by the Magistrate’s Court here today after pleading guilty to stealing a customer’s parcel containing a smartphone last month.

The accused, from Kota Samarahan, entered his plea before Magistrate Nursyaheeqa Nazwa Radzali.

According to the charge, he stole a parcel containing an Oppo smartphone belonging to a 40-year-old man at a courier company’s premises along Jalan Swasta at about 3.37am on Jan 15.

The offence was framed under Section 380 of the Penal Code, which provides for a maximum jail term of 10 years and a fine upon conviction.

Based on the case facts, on Jan 17 at around 3pm, the complainant, a human resource management officer with the courier company, was informed by the Miri courier delivery centre that a parcel box containing a smartphone had been found empty.

A review of closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage by the complainant revealed the accused removing an item from the parcel box.

A police report was subsequently lodged, and further investigations led to the arrest of the accused. Investigations confirmed that the smartphone had been taken by him.

The stolen phone was later seized and produced as an exhibit in court.

The case was prosecuted by Deputy Public Prosecutor Muhammad Afiq Safly Nor Kazly. The accused was unrepresented. — DayakDaily