[blueyoda]

> "because when someone stole it you were on a date with a colleague from work, and didn't want your husband to know"

I don't understand the logic here. Why not report it after the date? A rather strange number of coincidences... having a "prior arrest record in another drug use case" and not reporting his phone being stolen, only to be arrested for a drug event again.

Nevertheless, I would never cheat on my spouse, so I would not be in such a situation to begin with.

Regardless, it is possible that we are not really hearing his side of the story properly. He doesn't even have a lawyer, which is extremely concerning. Regardless of whether or not he is guilty, he deserves the best defense possible.

[graderjs]

The point is there’s lots of reasons to have your stolen phone not reported, you don’t immediately have to jump to suspicious, you could empathize with that.

I imagine that some folks in NZ may not report to police a stolen phone out of general distrust of police, or a lack of belief that it would help anything.

Of course, if he knew he was going to be busted two weeks later then he should have but… haha