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Soldier fined for shoplifting at Disney
(AP)
Updated: 2006-03-20 08:42
HONG KONG -- A Chinese soldier stationed in Hong Kong has been fined for
stealing a Mickey Mouse key ring from Hong Kong Disneyland, a court document
showed.
Tsuen Wan Magistrates' Court charged Zhang Qinggang, 27, with theft and
ordered him to pay HK$1,000 ($129) for pocketing the HK$35 ($4.50) key ring from
a shop at the theme park in January, the document issued Friday showed.
Zhang, a Hong Kong-based member of the People's Liberation Army, was shopping
at the theme park with his wife when a security guard spotted him slipping the
key ring into a carrier bag, the Ming Pao Daily reported Saturday.
The soldier pleaded guilty to the charge, the paper said.
The theft was an individual case and the Chinese army has always abided by
the law since stationing in the city eight years ago, the paper quoted a PLA
Hong Kong garrison spokesman as saying.
PLA soldiers were deployed to Hong Kong in 1997 after the former British
colony was returned to China.
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