A 27-year-old female gambler from the mainland stole gambling chips worth HK$290,000 from a couple – also from the mainland – in a guestroom of a casino-hotel on Wednesday, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press conference yesterday.

According to Lei, the suspect surnamed Huang is from Guangdong province.

Lei said the couple came to Macau and checked into a guestroom of a hotel in the city centre last Friday, when they first met Huang in the hotel’s casino. Since then the couple and Huang had stayed in touch.

Judiciary Police (PJ) officers escort the hooded gaming chip theft suspect to a PJ vehicle outside the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday. Photo: Iong Tat Choi

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