Three Youths With Penchant For Business Premises Fined For Theft
By Rol Ezam

Bandar Seri Begawan - Three local youths aged 20 to 23 who stole from several businesses last year, pleading guilty, and were fined nearly $15,000 in the Magistrate's Court yesterday.

The three youths, Ak Amil Sulaiman, Ak Evyroy Fadly Musa and Khairul Azli appeared in court yesterday before Senior Magistrate Radin Shafiee Radin Mas Basuni. Ak Sulaiman was represented by his counsel, Mr Ahmad Basuni.

Legal officer officer Syed Azmal Syed Ali prosecuted. Ak Amil was fined $2,500 or two months' imprisonment for each of two alternative charges he pleaded guilty which amounted to $5,000 in fines or serve 4 months in jail.

Ak Evyroy was fined a total of $6,850 or imprisonment of 5 months and 2 weeks after he pleaded guilty to two alternative charges and to another two charges.

PO Syed Azmal said the third youngster Khairul Azli was fined $2,500 or 2 months in custody after he plead guilty to a charge of theft.

It came to the consideration of the magistrate where he ordered that Ak Evyroy and Khairul Azli's pay the fines within three months.

As revealed in the statement of facts, in the very early hours of the morning of August 26 last year, Ak Amil drove his car with Ak Evyroy to CH Hobbies Co in Kg Menglait where they later saw a wooden ladder and with it opened the toilet window of the shop.

Both decided to park their car and entered the said premises to commit theft.

Ak Evyroy entered through the open window. When he saw there was no one else in the shop, he called out to Ak Amil to get into the shop.

They then managed to steal two bags, two CD changers, two CD players, a black capacitor, a 'rockford fosqate' punch amplifier, a CD writer, two mouse, a wall clock, two bottles of air filter cleaner, two woofers, a canoscan, a serpent bag, a gold capacitor and a jacob acuvolt.

Both then left the shop and headed towards Ak Evyroy's house in Kg Rimba. At the house, they divided up the goods among themselves and went separate ways.

Further facts stated were that Khairul Azli was involved with Ak Amil and Ak Evyroy to commit theft in the very early hours of July 18 last year.

Ak Amil drove Ak Evyroy and Khairul Azli to Elmaya Computer School in Batu Bersurat after a decision to enter the school to commit theft.

Ak Evyroy's then entered the school from the toilet window and opened the door for his friends to enter.

As listed in the facts, they stole a red metal money safe, Olympus camera worth $1,800, binoculars worth $450, 18k gold-plated pen, two computers, two printers, two DMC Pentium computers, seven wallets and five handbags.

Furthermore, Ak Evyroy also admitted to theft of a computer and a fan from Ria Sejati Tuition School in a Kiulap building around July 16 the same year.

He also admitted to theft of two cartons of Alphine cigarettes and six cartoons of Sampoerna cigarettes from Medan Selera Enak Rasa Food Court in Jalan Tutong.

PO Syed Azmal said all three were first offenders and all items stolen were recovered. (Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin)

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