Kota Kinabalu: An unemployed man was jailed 12 months, Thursday, for attempting to steal an air-conditioner compressor from a bank at the city centre.
Rezally Ramatan, 32, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Jessica Ombou Kakayun to trying to steal the compressor belonging to Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Berhad at the back of the building at 2.45am on June 15.
Inspector Albert Basiri, prosecuting, informed the court that a police report was lodged by a complainant who found through the closed-circuit television footage of a man attempting to steal the compressor.
A man, later identified as Rezally, was arrested by police at the Jalan Dewan area following the report lodged on June 16, the court heard.
Duty counsel Lim Ming Zoong @ Lawrence, representing Rezally, requested for leniency on the grounds that he used to work as a carpenter but lost his job due to the Movement Control Order (MCO).
To a question by the court, Rezally confirmed that he tried to steal the compressor twice, in the morning and in the wee hours the next day, adding that the said compressor was still there.
The charge under Section 379/511 of the Penal Code carries a jail term of up to three and a half years, on conviction.
In another case, a 24-year-old man was charged with three counts of disposing stolen items.
However, no plea was taken from Mohd Dam after the charges were read out to him through video conferencing.
On the first count, Mohd Dam was accused of disposing of a stolen microwave and a blender at 7.30pm on June 11 behind a shop at Api-Api Centre.
On the second count, Mohd Dam allegedly disposing of two stolen cooking gas cylinders at a house in Kg Sembulan Lama at 7pm on June 11 and on the third count he was accused of disposing of a stolen cooking gas cylinder at 7.19pm on the same day and place.
Each charge under Section 414 of the Penal Code carries a jail term of between six months and seven years and liability of a fine on conviction.
The court set July 22 and 27 for mention and offered Mohd Dam bail at RM1,000 in two sureties on each charge.
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