{"id":45005,"date":"2026-04-16T22:12:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=45005"},"modified":"2026-04-16T22:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:12:41","slug":"man-arrested-after-trying-to-smuggle-contraband-cigarettes-hidden-in-bread-loaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=45005","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after trying to smuggle contraband cigarettes hidden in bread loaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 A Malaysian man was arrested at <!-- -->Woodlands Checkpoint<!-- --> after he tried to smuggle<!-- --> <!-- -->duty-unpaid cigarettes into Singapore by hiding them in a loaf of bread on <!-- -->April 7.<!-- --> <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a Facebook post on<!-- --> April 14,<!-- --> the<!-- --> Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA)<!-- --> said it<!-- --> <!-- -->found the loaf of bread in the basket of a Malaysia-registered motorcycle, which was directed for checks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">ICA officers found eight<!-- --> packets of contraband<!-- --> <!-- -->cigarettes hidden within the loaf after inspecting it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The man, <!-- -->49<!-- -->, was later arrested in connection with the case and referred to Singapore Customs for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a photograph of the incident that ICA shared in its<!-- --> <!-- -->post, packets of cigarettes can be seen stacked between slices of bread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The post went viral, drawing some <!-- -->3,300 reactions and more than 430 comments, and was shared about 1,300 times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/man-arrested-after-trying-to-smuggle-contraband-cigarettes-hidden-in-bread-loaf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A Malaysian man was arrested at Woodlands Checkpoint after he tried to smuggle duty-unpaid cigarettes into Singapore by hiding them in a loaf&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45005","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=45005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}