A daring thief broke into a Mwenezi police officer’s house
and got away with a Samsung Galaxy J7 smartphone belonging to one Constable
Tatenda Shiri valued at $5 000 and sold it to a fellow villager for $50.
Raphael Chezhara (45) of village 6 Mufula Ranch Tagarika
under Chief Chitanga recently appeared before Mwenezi Magistrate Honest Musiiwa
facing unlawful entry charge after he allegedly entered a police base and stole
constable Shiri’s cell phone.
Chezhara denied the charges and argued that he got
possession of Shiri’s cell phone after it was sold to him by someone else.
Argued by prosecutor Willard Chasi it was the State case
that sometime in January this year, constable Shiri who was manning the Mufula
police base left his Samsung cell phone inside a locked house after he was
summoned to Rutenga police post.
Upon his return from Rutenga, Shiri found that his cell
phone was missing and his house’s window was opened. Days later it was
discovered that Chezhara was the one who had committed the offence.
Investigations revealed that after stealing the cell phone,
the accused sold it to another fellow villager for $50 and topped with a Nokia
smartphone.
This led to Chezhara’s arrest and the stolen Samsung with a
net value of $5 000 was recovered.
The matter was postponed to a later date for continuation
of trial. TellZim News
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