Handcuff thief gets 1 month in Dubai jail
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May 20, 2011, Friday
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A DUBAI court yesterday sentenced an American to one month in prison after he was charged with stealing a pair of police handcuffs.
The punishment handed down to Adam Foster, 30, was far less than his supporters originally feared. The Burdett, New York, engineer had been facing as many as seven years behind bars for the alleged theft from a Dubai police station, according to his lawyer.
A judge in the city-state's misdemeanor court read out Foster's sentence but did not provide details of the guilty verdict.
Foster's lawyer, Yousuf Hammad, had urged the court to reduce the charges against his client to finding and failing to report lost property. He also had argued for leniency in the case, saying that Foster had no criminal record and had agreed to return the handcuffs.
Hammad said he was still waiting for court papers to be filed for details of the verdict. He said his client would begin serving his sentence immediately.
"He decided to go to jail today," Hammad said. "I cannot say he was happy, but he accepted the judgment."
Foster was arrested in February while on a temporary work assignment in Dubai. He said he found the handcuffs in a shopping mall parking lot and put them in his bag. The handcuffs were discovered at the airport as Foster was leaving the country.
The punishment handed down to Adam Foster, 30, was far less than his supporters originally feared. The Burdett, New York, engineer had been facing as many as seven years behind bars for the alleged theft from a Dubai police station, according to his lawyer.
A judge in the city-state's misdemeanor court read out Foster's sentence but did not provide details of the guilty verdict.
Foster's lawyer, Yousuf Hammad, had urged the court to reduce the charges against his client to finding and failing to report lost property. He also had argued for leniency in the case, saying that Foster had no criminal record and had agreed to return the handcuffs.
Hammad said he was still waiting for court papers to be filed for details of the verdict. He said his client would begin serving his sentence immediately.
"He decided to go to jail today," Hammad said. "I cannot say he was happy, but he accepted the judgment."
Foster was arrested in February while on a temporary work assignment in Dubai. He said he found the handcuffs in a shopping mall parking lot and put them in his bag. The handcuffs were discovered at the airport as Foster was leaving the country.
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