Vietnamese restaurant manager arrested for stealing motorcycle
Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 14:00 GMT+7
A Vietnamese man was caught by police on Sunday for stealing a motorcycle at a parking lot over his financial difficulty.
Police in Ho Chi Minh City arrested Nguyen Anh Khoa, 28, residing in Nha Be, a suburban district of the metropolis, charging him with theft.
Khoa has a college degree and was serving as the manager of a restaurant at a shopping center in District 10, Ho Chi Minh City, authorities said.
Lack of money motivated him to illegally take the Air Blade scooter of Ho Thi N. Loan, a 44-year-old woman in District 5.
According to probe results, on the afternoon of March 17, he rode his motorcycle to the parking space in the basement of the building where he worked, and the lot warden by mistake gave him two parking tickets, in which the motorcycle’s license number was written down as the convenient valid indicator of the vehicle ownership.
One of the tickets bore Khoa’s motorcycle license number, with the other staying unfilled.
Having spotted a key still left in the ignition switch of the scooter, he wrote the registered number of the to-be-stolen vehicle in the available ticket and ran away after the attendant checked it without suspicion.
He hid the scooter at an apartment building where he lives before returning to work with calmness.
He rode his own motorcycle successfully out of the parking lot on the evening of the same day with the other ticket.
The man replaced the scooter’s license plate with a fake one that he bought at VND600,000 (US$26) so as to use it on the street.
He admitted all his wrongdoings.
Nguyen Anh Khoa illegally takes an Air Blade scooter at the parking lot of the shopping center in District 10, Ho Chi Minh City, where he worked, in the security camera footage provided by Ho Chi Minh City police officers.
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