3 Columbians get six months' jail each for stealing pearls
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SINGAPORE: Three Columbians were on Thursday sentenced to six months' jail each for stealing pearls worth S$22,000 from a jewellery exhibition at Marina Bay Sands in July 2012.
48-year-old Blanca Doris Parra Camacho, 46-year-old Maria Cristina Cordoba Rodriguez, and 36-year-old Gomez Martinez Jose Ricardo were caught on CCTV as they executed the theft.
The trio had distracted the owners of the jewellery who were waiting for a taxi, before carting off one of the luggage bags containing the pearls.
The owners, who took part in the jewellery exhibition, had been loading their exhibits into the taxi when they realised one of the bags was missing.
The trio were later picked up the police. The bag containing the stolen pearls was also recovered.
In their earlier submissions, the prosecution had asked for a custodial sentence of six months' jail to be imposed on the trio as they had committed the offence within a week of arriving in Singapore.
The prosecution added that the theft had clearly required a fair amount of planning.
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More FTs (Foreign Thieves).
