Foreign Waiter Jailed For Stealing Mobile Phone
By Rol Ezam

Bandar Seri Begawan - The Magistrate’s Court on Saturday imposed a fine of $1,500 on a 26-year-old Indonesian waiter who stole his employer’s mobile phone from his workplace. However, he failed to pay the fine and had to serve the default sentence of one month in prison.

Joko Prasetyo pleaded guilty to stealing a Nokia 2100 belonging to his employer before Magistrate Dk Masni Pg Hj Bahar.

The court heard that ten days ago, the complainant and her husband by chance met with the defendant at the Bumiputera complex in the capital. Whilst talking to the defendant, the complainant’s husband noticed that the defendant was holding a mobile phone similar to the missing phone belonging to the complainant. They then asked the defendant if they could take a look at the said phone but the defendant refused and quickly left.

The complainant then lodged a police report on the same day at the Lamunin Police Station where police investigations revealed that the mobile phone found to be in the defendant’s possession was indeed the one belonging to the complainant, the court was told.

He was employed as a waiter at Hj Judin Restaurant at No. 1581, Simpang 1581 in Kampong Lamunin between the month of August and September this year. The restaurant is owned by the family of the complainant, Hjh Norain Hj Judin.

The Deputy Public Prosecutor said that the defendant committed the offence sometime in September 9. He was working at the said restaurant when he saw a Nokia mobile phone (model 2100) belonging to the complainant, which was placed on top of the counter in the restaurant.

Upon seeing the said mobile phone and seeing that there was no one in the restaurant, the defendant then proceeded to take the said phone. He then used the stolen mobile phone for his own use, said the DPP. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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