{"id":21415,"date":"2025-12-19T23:44:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=21415"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:44:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:44:33","slug":"teenager-arrested-for-armed-robbery-in-jurong-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=21415","title":{"rendered":"Teenager arrested for armed robbery in Jurong West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: <span>A 17-year-old teenager has been arrested for his suspected involvement in a case of armed robbery, police said on Friday evening (Dec 19).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At about 10.35pm on Thursday, the police were alerted to a case of armed robbery along Jurong West Street 93.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The teenager had allegedly swung a karambit towards the victim and demanded that he hand over his mobile phone and gold ring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He was arrested within 10 hours, said police, adding that the stolen items and the weapon used were recovered and seized as case exhibits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The teenager will be charged in court on Saturday with armed robbery.\u00a0If found guilty, he faces a jail term of between five and 20 years, and at least 12 strokes of the cane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The police will not tolerate such brazen acts of crime and will spare no effort to apprehend such offenders and deal with them in accordance with the law.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/teenager-armed-robbery-arrest-jurong-west-karambit-5652421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: A 17-year-old teenager has been arrested for his suspected involvement in a case of armed robbery, police said on Friday evening (Dec 19). At&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--2CqsmKR4--\/c_crop,h_270,w_480,x_0,y_20\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2025\/12\/19\/image_480.png?itok=Lekyd_6i","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13619,1344,9575,8784,13618,7625],"class_list":["post-21415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-armed","tag-arrested","tag-jurong","tag-robbery","tag-teenager","tag-west","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}