Police said the suspect Lin Heng-teh, broke into a staffer’s locker room at a Taipei hospital Tuesday and made away with purses, according to the United Evening News.

He then went to a Carrefour outlet trying to buy a cell phone, worth NT$12,000, using a stolen credit card.

But the cashier clerk found that his signature on the bill was different from the one the card, and had him arrested, police said.

Lin claimed that he was a pathological kleptomaniac who could not resist the temptation of stealing, and he asked police to set him free, the paper said.

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