On the third day of the Lunar New Year, a jewelry store in a Daben shopping mall in Yau Tong was burglarized.
Today (24th) at 12:18 noon, the staff of the jewelry store reported to the police that when a woman tried on a gold necklace worth about 15,000 yuan, she suspected that she broke the necklace and stole part of it worth about 4,000 yuan. and fled.
A 54-year-old man surnamed Chen who was walking with the woman was arrested, and the police arrested him on suspicion of theft.
However, the woman holding the necklace has already fled, and her whereabouts are unknown.
According to on-site news, a man and a woman entered the store earlier to pretend to buy necklaces, during which time they took out 4 necklaces, worth about several thousand yuan.
The two suddenly snatched the necklace away, the staff found out and stopped the man, while the woman ran away from the door.
The police searched the shopping mall and women's toilets and found nothing.
The male suspect led the investigation and claimed that he did not know the woman accompanying him.
The case was followed up by Team Six of the Criminal Investigation Team of the Kwun Tong Police District. The police are looking for a 30-year-old woman about 1.6 meters tall. She was wearing a pink top, black pants and khaki shoes at the time of the incident, and was carrying a There is a khaki bag.