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Singapore police have arrested four people—two men and two women—in connection with the abduction and unlawful possession of a weapon. The arrest followed a threatening incident involving a parang at a carpark.
A 19-year-old Singaporean has been fined S$600 after pleading guilty to a public nuisance charge stemming from a viral video in which he licked a straw from an orange juice vending machine.
A Singapore secondary school physical education teacher has admitted to sexually abusing a 14-year-old student he met through Instagram. The 45-year-old pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual penetration of a minor, with incidents occurring between 2022 and 2023.
A former Singapore teacher has been handed a two-year prison sentence for sexually abusing an underage female student through grooming tactics. He was convicted on three counts of indecent acts with a child and one count of sexual grooming.
A Singapore man has been charged with murder after allegedly killing his neighbour at a Housing and Development Board block in the Redhill area on July 20. The victim died at hospital following the incident.
A 29-year-old Indonesian woman has been charged in Singapore with five counts of child ill-treatment, three counts of voyeurism, and transmitting obscene material involving three young children over a two-month period.
An Indian tourist has been jailed for over two years after stealing a S$200,000 diamond from a Singapore jewellery store using a carefully planned counterfeit swap scheme. His accomplice's case remains pending.
A Singapore corporate services operator has been jailed 32 weeks for falsifying financial records for shell companies involved in the city-state's largest money laundering case worth S$3 billion.
Singapore police are investigating 550 suspects aged 16 to 83 for roles in more than 1,800 scam and unlicensed moneylending cases, with victims losing over $14.8 million in scams alone.
Singapore's police force joined a coordinated Interpol operation spanning 97 countries that resulted in 5,811 arrests and interception of US$293 million in criminal assets. The campaign targeted sophisticated social engineering and fraud schemes.
A Chinese national who arrived in Singapore for the first time in December deliberately targeted wealthy neighbourhoods, burgling two properties and stealing jewellery worth S$105,000 before being arrested within days.
A Singapore court sentenced a 27-year-old man to 22 years' imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane for systematically raping a 13-year-old girl and coercing her into prostitution between May and July 2023.
Singapore police arrested a 46-year-old woman for stabbing an acquaintance with a knife at a Bukit Merah Housing Board block on Saturday night. The victim was hospitalised with injuries.
A 63-year-old Singapore man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his 61-year-old flatmate in March 2023. Ng Boon Hong poured boiling oil on Ang Cheng Kek before fatally stabbing him multiple times following escalating disputes in their shared Redhill rental unit.