BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, May 13 (Xinhua) -- The Magistrate Court of Brunei sentenced a 45-year-old unemployed man to 16 months in jail on Monday after he was found guilty of stealing an iPhone 11 from a shop near the capital, local media reported on Tuesday.

According to the local daily Borneo Bulletin, the court handed down the sentence to Mohd Noramir Jamil, who had pleaded guilty to theft, which carries a penalty of up to seven years imprisonment and a fine.

The theft incident occurred on May 3, when Mohd Noramir entered a shop and noticed an unattended iPhone 11 on a table near a desktop computer. After ensuring the shop was quiet and no one was around, he took the device and left the premises.

The phone belonged to a shop employee who discovered the theft shortly after and alerted her employer. Mohd Noramir went to a bus stop in the capital and approached a mobile phone shop where he sold the stolen device for 50 Brunei dollars (about 38.33 U.S. dollars). ■