KOTA KINABALU: A local man will be tried in the Magistrate’s Court on August 28 and 29 this year for a charge of dishonestly misappropriating a car.
Magistrate Herlina Muse fixed the trial dates for Carlsten Freddie Japat, 36, after he pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The unrepresented accused was alleged to have misappropriated for his own purpose a Proton Iswara car belonging to one Azinen Kuntagil, 37, by the road side near a junction leading to Kampung Umbanak, Penampang on the Penampang-Papar Road 4.30am on March 5, this year.
Japat faces a jail term of between five and six years, and whipping, and is also liable to a fine, if he is convicted of the alleged offence framed under Section 403 of the Penal Code.
Bail was refused since the accused is currently serving a jail term for another offence.
In another case, a 21-year-old jobless local man was jailed a total of three months for dishonestly receiving stolen items and disposing of one of them.
Dick Deyvon Dualis was convicted and jailed for 30 days on the first charge framed under Section 411 of the Penal Code for dishonestly receiving a stolen Apple Ipad and a Samsung Galaxy 7.0 belonging to a 16-year-old female student about 10.30pm on June 30, this year.
The Code provides for a jail term of up to five years, or a fine, or both, on conviction.
On the second charge of disposing of the stolen hand phone to a hand phone outlet in Sinsuran about 11am on July 4, this year, Dualis was handed down with a two months’ jail sentence.
He was convicted under Section 414 of the Penal Code which carries a jail term of up to seven years or a fine, or both, on conviction.
The court ordered the custodial sentences to run consecutively.
Prosecuting officer Azaman Hamat informed the court that a female student lodged a police report on June 30, this year stating that her room had been entered into by an unknown person.
She claimed that the room had been rummaged through and was in a messy state and later discovered that the said items had gone missing. She suspected her house colleague’s husband had stolen those items since he had earlier left the house and took all his clothes away.
The accused was arrested by police on July 4 in the vicinity of Wawasan Plaza.
Prosecuting officer Azaman Hamat prosecuted the cases.