LABUAN: The Magistrate’s Court here yesterday fined two crew members of an Indonesian ship RM1,500, in default, two months’ imprisonment for trespassing on Labuan Liberty Port Management (LLPM) property.
Magistrate Lovely Natasha Charles fined Hamzah Gani and Muhammad Husni, both in their 20s, after they pleaded guilty to trespassing.
The court was told that LLPM security guards arrested Hamzah and Muhammad around 4am on December 14, this year, when they climbed up the fence to enter into the LLPM area.
A police report stated that Hamzah and Muhammad were coming back from the town to their ship which was anchored at the port of LLPM.
Both of them discovered that the main gate of the port had been locked and the security guard on duty was also sleeping.
They tried to climb the fence to get into the port.
The other security guard who was on duty, became suspicious of the accused’s action which led him to detain them and handed them over to the police.
Hamzah and Muhammad were charged and tried under Section 447 of the Penal Code which provides for a term of up to six months and a fine up to RM3,000 or both.
Meanwhile, in another case at the same court, local Aladin Wong Guang Chin, 40, was jailed for two years for stealing and selling a stolen item.
The facts of the case stated that police detained Aladin around 2.30pm on March 17 this year for selling a stolen Acer laptop to a Filipino woman at Kampung Sinar Baru, Kimanis, Papar.
Aladin stole the laptop from a house at Lot 29, Taman Wong Wo Lo Phase 1, a day before his arrest and sold it to the woman around 11.30pm on the same day.
The owner of the laptop only found his laptop missing around 10am the same day.
Later at 12.46pm the same day, the laptop owner lodged a police report.
Aladin was also convicted of two other offences under Section 414 of the Penal Code which provides for a jail term of up to seven years or a fine, or both.
Chief inspector Hasnan Abidin prosecuted both cases.