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SINGAPORE: A teenager who posted a video of himself licking a straw and returning it<\/a> to an iJooz vending machine was meant to plead guilty on Monday (Jul 13), but the case was adjourned at the prosecution’s request.<\/p>\n The prosecutor said she was checking with the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) on whether 19-year-old French national Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien would have his student pass cancelled upon conviction.<\/p>\n This may have an impact on his sentencing, said State Prosecuting Officer Sukhdev Kaur.<\/p>\n Maximilien faces one charge each of public nuisance and mischief over the incident at Goldhill Centre on Mar 12. He is accused of licking a straw, placing it back into the straw dispenser of an iJooz machine and posting a video of the act on his Instagram Story.<\/p>\n The act caused iJooz to replace all 500 straws in the dispenser, worth S$5 (US$3.90) in total, the charge states.<\/p>\n Maximilien is represented by Mr Kalidass Murugaiyan and Mr Kanthan Raghavendra.<\/p>\n When asked by District Judge Kelly Ho, Mr Murugaiyan explained that his client was not in Singapore on an exchange programme, but as a student-pass holder.<\/p>\n Part of Maximilien’s programme requires him to have a stint in France from September to the end of this year, said the lawyer.<\/p>\n When the judge asked how probation as sought by the defence would work in that situation, Mr Murugaiyan said the feasibility of probation could be assessed if a probation suitability report is called for.<\/p>\n He said he was in the process of working with Maximilien to see if he can come back for interviews at certain periods.<\/p>\n If he does not make the trip to France, he cannot complete the programme, said the lawyer.<\/p>\n Maximilien’s school, ESSEC Business School, earlier said it was aware of the incident and that internal investigations were underway.<\/span><\/p>\n In response, Ms Kaur said the prosecution was checking with ICA on whether Maximilien’s student pass would be cancelled upon conviction.<\/p>\n This may have an impact on his sentencing, and the prosecution will review its sentencing position pending ICA’s reply, she said.<\/p>\n She asked for an adjournment of four to six weeks but did not object to a shorter adjournment of three weeks.<\/p>\n The guilty plea was fixed for Jul 30.<\/p>\n If convicted of mischief, Maximilien could be jailed for up to two years, fined, or both.<\/p>\n If convicted of public nuisance, he could be jailed for up to three months, fined up to S$2,000, or both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE: A teenager who posted a video of himself licking a straw and returning it to an iJooz vending machine was meant to plead guilty…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68355,"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-68354","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\/68354","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=68354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}PROBATION POSSIBILITY?<\/h2>\n
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