Denger Lopez has been sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment for stealing a cell phone from a store located at Oronoque and Regent streets Bourda, Georgetown on January 11.
Unrepresented by legal counsel, the 28-year-old Lopez appeared on Friday before Senior Magistrate Dylon Bess to answer the charge of simple larceny, and admitted that he had stolen a Samsung Galaxy A14 worth $40,000. The phone is owned by an employee of the store.
The Police prosecutor detailed that the victim had left the phone on a glass counter at her place of employment that day; and after some time, Lopez had come inside the business place and had started looking around before he picked up the phone and walked out of the store.
According to the prosecutor, one of the victim’s coworkers saw what had transpired and raised an alarm, and Lopez was pursued. Public-spirited citizens captured Lopez and handed him over to the Police, and the stolen phone was discovered on his person.
The magistrate told Lopez that stealing was wrong, but considered his early guilty plea while deciding on the appropriate punishment. (G1)
