Around the nation: Chinese police hunt man who stole cash and sex toys
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 14 January, 2015, 5:59pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 14 January, 2015, 6:46pm
Police in Henan province said a man, filmed by a surveillance camera, is suspected of stealing cash and sex toys worth more than 10,000 yuan from eight Luoyang sex shops in one night. Photo: Dahe Daily
HENAN
Sex shop burglaries
Police in Luoyang are looking for a man who stole cash and sex toys worth more than 10,000 yuan from eight sex shops in one night, Dahe Daily reports. One business said five of its stores had the doors pried open and the cash in the sex-toy vending machines stolen. Surveillance footage proved it was the same man who carried out the thefts.
Injured in TV fight
A kick-boxer from Huaiyang county near Zhoukou put a martial arts master in hospital after the two had a bout broadcast on television, the news website Eastday.com reports. The martial arts expert fractured a rib after he was kicked in the chest. The fight was broadcast from a television station in Tianjin.
JIANGSU
Woman saved in river
A university student in Nanjing jumped into a freezing river to save a naked woman who was trying to kill herself, the Southern Metropolis News reports. Photographs taken by witnesses show the man scrambling to the top of the two-metre riverbank alone as people rushed to check on the condition of the woman. She was said to be suffering from a mental illness.
Salon used fake Botox
The owner of a beauty salon in Xuzhou that used fake Botox medications and cosmetics has been convicted of selling counterfeit drugs, the news website Jschina.com.cn reports. The police tested samples of the wrinkle-removing Botox injection after receiving complaints from customers and found it was fake. The salon owner will be sentenced at a later date.
CHONGQING
Airliner door scare
A passenger on board a West Air flight from Lhasa to the municipality opened the emergency door shortly after the aircraft landed on Monday evening, the Chongqing Daily reports. Photographs taken by witnesses at the airport showed the emergency slide deployed. An initial investigation suggested the man was seated next to the door and might have opened it by accident.
Boy causes drains blast
A seven-year-old from the Jiulongpo district of the municipality threw firecrackers into a manhole and blew off its cover, injuring an elderly person passing by, the news website Chinanews.com reports. Witnesses said the blast was so powerful that the sign of a nearby restaurant fell to the ground. Police said methane in the drain was ignited by the firecracker.
GUANGDONG
Police deny killing
Police in Shaoguan have denied allegations circulating on social media that a man died after he was tortured and abused at a police station, the news website Chinanews.com reports. The posts said the man, who was arrested last year for soliciting a prostitute, had been strapped to a bench and denied food. Police said they had gone through surveillance footage with the man’s relatives to prove there had been no wrongdoing. A forensic report said the man probably died of a heart attack.
Ex-wife ‘hired hitman’
A woman from Zhuhai has been arrested for allegedly hiring a hitman to kill her ex-husband’s girlfriend with a poisoned dart, the Guangzhou Daily reports. Police allege that the man was paid 120,000 yuan (HK$151,810) to shoot the poison into the woman. The dart failed to pierce the girlfriend’s fur coat.
HAINAN
‘Attacked with hot oil’
A municipal security officer from Haikou was allegedly splashed with boiling cooking oil after he tried to drive away two hawkers who had set up a food stall outside a village government building, the Nanguo Metropolis Daily reports. One of the sellers scooped up the oil with a spoon and threw it at the officer’s face, according to two other security officials at the scene.
Archivist led beating
The head of the archive bureau in Chengmai county has been detained for 15 days after he led a gang of 10 people who beat up a village official, the news website Hinews.cn reports. The man was angry because the official had ordered villagers to cut down six bamboo trees he had planted which were blocking traffic.
HEILONGJIANG
Trapped in new flats
Dozens of households who moved into an apartment block in Harbin before construction was finished have been trapped inside the building since Friday after builders welded the front door to its frame, the website chinanews.com reports. Friends and relatives have had to pass food and water through ground floor windows, according to the report. Residents have called the police, but were told to communicate directly with the developers.
Fled from kitchen fire
Neighbours had to call the fire brigade after a man from Harbin fled from his apartment after a cooking gas cylinder caught fire, the new website Xinnews.my399.com reports. Neighbours said they saw heavy smoke rising from a window. Firefighters put out the blaze.
JILIN
TV copycats row
High school fans of the Chinese version of the popular TV show, Running Man, have angered customers and staff at a mall in Changchun after they organised their own version of the programme at the shopping centre, the news website Xinhuanet.com reports. The programme involves contestants carrying out a series of races and stunts and it debuted on mainland TV last year. Pupils from various high schools have gathered at the Saide shopping mall to copy the show’s format. Customers said it was disturbing to have dozens of teenagers running around.
Online shopping scam
A university freshman from Changchun was swindled out of more than 2,000 yuan by a fake online part-time job agency, the news website Chinajilin.com.cn reports. The student was offered a post to give good reviews to an online shop. He was promised all the goods he bought would be refunded and he would be paid 40 yuan for each purchase and review. He spent more than 2,000 yuan on four products, but could not contact the agency to ask for a refund and payments.
XINJIANG
Revenge arson attack
Urumqi police have arrested a man who allegedly set fire to the apartment of his employers after several attempts to get unpaid wages failed, the news website Chinanews.com reports. No casualties were reported. Police said the man confessed to pouring flammable banana oil through the front door’s peephole and setting fire to the flat.
Gang sold fake rail tickets
Urumqi police have arrested a gang who allegedly made and sold counterfeit train tickets, Xinjiang Television reports. The police captured the four in a rented apartment after receiving complaints from passengers.
