The Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday announced the arrest of a man from the mainland on Thursday on suspicion of threatening gamblers on two occasions in two casinos with a syringe by claiming he had AIDS, in order to get the gamblers give him money to gamble with.

PSP spokesman Lam Keong made the announcement during a regular press conference yesterday. Lam identified the suspect as a 27-year-old man surnamed Guo.

On September 8, Guo saw that two men had won a large amount of money in a casino-hotel in Nape. Guo followed the pair and threatened them with a syringe filled with a red liquid in a hotel corridor, claiming he had AIDS. Guo told them to give him money so he could gamble, Lam said.

Public Security Police spokesman Lam Keong listens to reporters’ questions during yesterday’s press conference about the case. Photo: Tony Wong

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