Call center agent seen on CCTV stealing cell phone of co-employee

MANILA, Philippines -  A surveillance camera caught a call center agent stealing Saturday the cell phone of his co-employee in the locker room of their office in Mandaluyong City.

The suspect, Jason Tumbali, 23, employee of the Teleperformance located along Edsa Central and residing at Blk.8, Lot 10, Dave St., Hillcrest Village, Novaliches, North Caloocan City, admitted the crime after being confronted by the closed-circuit TV camera footage.

Jeremae Boboran, 22, the owner of the stolen LG brand cell phone model GM3601 vowed to file theft charges against the suspect “to teach him a lesson.”

“He denied stealing my cell phone at first and only admitted the crime after being confronted by the video footage,” said Boboran.

Boboran said she noticed her cell phone worth P12,000 missing in her locker at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

She said she asked her co-employees, including Tumbali, but all of them denied taking her cell phone prompting her to coordinate with their office’ security personnel, who checked the video footage which recorded the theft proceedings.

After being confronted by the video footage, Tumbali broke into tears, admitted the crime and returned the stolen cell phone.

He went down on his knees before Boboran and asked for forgiveness but the victim pushed through with the filing of theft charges against him.

According to Tumbali, he owns a Nokia Series cell phone and knew of the CCTV camera deployed in their office.

He expressed surprise why he failed to stop himself from stealing the victim’s cell phone.