{"id":54207,"date":"2026-05-21T19:16:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=54207"},"modified":"2026-05-21T19:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:16:37","slug":"man-holding-2-hacksaws-at-bukit-batok-carpark-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=54207","title":{"rendered":"Man holding 2 hacksaws at Bukit Batok carpark arrested"},"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 <!-- -->46-year-old <!-- -->man was arrested on <!-- -->May 18<!-- --> after he was seen holding two hacksaws <!-- -->at<!-- --> a carpark in Bukit Batok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a response to media queries, the police said they received a call for assistance near <!-- -->Bukit Batok Street 31<!-- --> at <!-- -->9.10pm on May 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Police officers found<!-- --> the <!-- -->man<!-- --> holding <!-- -->two hacksaws<!-- --> at an open carpark <!-- -->when they arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">As the man posed a potential threat of seriously hurting himself or other people, officers had drawn their tasers and verbally commanded him to drop the hacksaws, the police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The man complied with the orders and he was later arrested for possession of offensive weapons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a video of the incident posted on TikTok <!-- -->on May 20<!-- -->, four police officers can be seen near a man in a black long-sleeved shirt. Two police cars are parked nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Two police officers appear to be pointing their tasers at him, while another is seen holding a riot shield. <!-- -->Facing the officers, the man then squats down slowly.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"responsive-iframe-base tiktok tiktok-embed\" title=\"tiktok embed\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed\/v2\/7641815017201028373?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer;falseclipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share;\" loading=\"eager\" data-testid=\"responsiveIframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/man-holding-2-hacksaws-at-bukit-batok-carpark-arrested\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A 46-year-old man was arrested on May 18 after he was seen holding two hacksaws at a carpark in Bukit Batok. In a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54208,"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-54207","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\/54207","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=54207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}