{"id":66581,"date":"2026-07-06T19:37:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=66581"},"modified":"2026-07-06T19:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:37:03","slug":"man-charged-with-spitting-at-police-in-yishun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=66581","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with spitting at police in Yishun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE &#8211; A man was under a remission order following his release from prison when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/man-arrested-for-public-nuisance-after-allegedly-insulting-spitting-on-police-in-yishun?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><span class=\"inline font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"typography-test-id\">allegedly spat at a policeman<\/span><\/a> during a firefighting operation in Yishun on July 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">On July 6, Mohamad Yazid Junaineh, 43, was charged with using criminal force on the public servant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Court documents did not disclose details about his earlier offences, but he had been released from prison in April 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He was then placed on a remission order for the period of April 15, 2024 to Oct 12, 2026, during which he was supposed to keep himself out of trouble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Despite this, he allegedly spat at the policeman at Block 381C, Yishun Ring Road shortly before 8pm on July 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">On July 6, Yazid was ordered to be remanded at the Institute of Mental Health for a medical examination. His case will be mentioned again on July 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The blaze, which broke out on the\u00a012th floor of the block at around 5pm resulted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/child-taken-to-hospital-after-fire-breaks-out-in-yishun-hdb-flat?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><span class=\"inline font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"typography-test-id\">25 residents being evacuated. A child was also taken to hospital.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A video\u00a0posted on the Singapore Incidents Facebook page shows a man dressed in a red sleeveless top appearing to taunt police officers on the ground floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He\u00a0can be heard claiming that the police cannot arrest him and mockingly extends his hands, encouraging officers to handcuff him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In an earlier statement, a police spokesperson said officers encountered the man who hurled vulgarities at them, creating a disturbance which prevented them from managing the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The spokesperson added: \u201cWhen the officers engaged the man, he refused to cease his behaviour and spat on an officer. The man was arrested at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">For using criminal force on a public servant, an offender can be jailed for up to four years, fined or both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/man-under-remission-order-charged-with-spitting-at-cop-during-firefighting-operation-in-yishun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE &#8211; A man was under a remission order following his release from prison when he allegedly spat at a policeman during a firefighting operation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66349,"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-66581","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\/66581","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=66581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}