SINGAPORE – Between 2023 and 2025, a woman stole cash and fruit from a stall in Ang Mo Kio, and picked the pockets of several people in Yishun.
On Dec 18, Ong Siew York, 71, was sentenced to seven weeks’ jail after pleading guilty to three counts of theft and one count of theft in dwelling.
She was also fined $2,000 for unlawful gambling.
Ong visited a fruit stall in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10 at around 1.25pm on Aug 1, 2023, and stole a box of lychees while the stall assistant was distracted.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Nicole Teo told the court that Ong had also stolen cash from two victims at the same fruit stall on Sept 28, 2023.
On May 11, 2024, Ong was at a makeshift store at Block 103 Yishun Avenue 1 when she reached into another woman’s sling bag and grabbed the wallet.
After taking $370 in cash from it, she put the wallet back in the victim’s bag.
When told her bag was open, the woman made a police report.
