Patients at the San Fernando General Hospital are being advised to secure their personal belongings, after a police officer’s US$450 iPhone was stolen from his hospital bed.
A 41-year-old San Fernando man who was found with a hospital patient band in his possession was arrested yesterday morning. He also had the officer’s SIM card.
The police corporal, who is attached to the Fraud Squad, was admitted to the hospital last week to do a minor surgery. According to reports, around 3 am last Sunday he was readied and taken to the operating theatre. When he returned around 6 am his phone was missing and no one could account for it. Three other phones went missing on the ward that day.
However, the Cyber Crime Unit was able to track the SIM card to the suspect. Around 9 am, officers of the San Fernando CID and Fraud Squad went to a Coffee Street, San Fernando car wash where they held the suspect, who was washing cars. He told police he bought the SIM card from someone for $40, but three phones and a wireless mobile device were also found in his possession.