A month after a Korean footballer was victimized, another personality encountered pickpockets at the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig. Former Brazilian beauty queen Priscilla Meirelles , actor John Estrada ‘s wife, said that her iPhone 15 Plus was stolen while she was grocery shopping at The Marketplace in Uptown Mall on August 16 afternoon. Based on a statement by the Taguig City Police Station , she was doing a Facebook Live while checking the items she was about to purchase.
“After finishing their shopping, they proceeded to the cashier to pay. While they’re [in] the line [at] the cashier, suddenly, six unidentified individuals intentionally [bump] into her front and behind, creating a distraction [that] she believes allowed them to steal her iPhone 15 from her bag,” the police said on August 19. Priscilla noticed her phone was missing just as they were about to leave the premises.
The former Miss Earth titleholder reported the incident to the security guard, who escorted her to the administrative office. She also claimed to have screengrabs of the culprits’ faces. By 11:30 p.
m. of the same day, Priscilla called the police and informed them that she was able to trace the possible location of her phone through its “Find My iPhone” feature somewhere in Holy Spirit, Quezon City. The police said that her phone was recovered at the Greenhills Shopping Mall in San Juan City on Monday morning, where stalls for “Buy and Sell” of used phones were rampant.
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