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SINGAPORE: A man was charged on Wednesday (Aug 5) with abducting a 19-year-old man he had threatened with a sword known as a parang.<\/p>\n
Mashahri Mazlan, a 38-year-old Singaporean, was given one charge each of abduction and possessing a scheduled weapon.<\/p>\n
The police earlier said in a statement that they were alerted at about 1.55am on Tuesday to a case of a man being threatened by a group at a car park along Canberra Street.<\/p>\n
Investigations suggest that the man was confronted by two men and two women due to a dispute over a car rental agreement.<\/p>\n
Mashahri allegedly brandished a parang and threatened the man, asking him to sit in the front passenger seat of a vehicle.<\/p>\n
Mashahri then drove from Block 104B Canberra Street to Admiralty Road West and the junction of Woodlands Avenue 10 and Woodlands Avenue 7, according to charge sheets.<\/p>\n
Responding to the alert, the police located the vehicle. On seeing the police, Mashahri allegedly drove off with the victim and a 36-year-old accomplice in the car.<\/p>\n
The pursuit ended only when Mashahri crashed the car into a lamppost at the junction in Woodlands.<\/p>\n
After this, the 36-year-old alleged accomplice fled on foot.<\/p>\n
Mashahri was arrested at the scene with a parang on him.<\/p>\n
The other three alleged accomplices – the 36-year-old man and two women aged 30 and 38 – were later arrested in follow-up investigations.<\/p>\n
Mashahri was remanded for investigations and will return to court next week.<\/p>\n
If convicted of abduction, he could be jailed for up to seven years, fined, caned, or given any combination of these penalties.<\/p>\n
If convicted of possessing a scheduled weapon, he can be jailed for up to five years and at least six strokes of the cane.<\/p>\n
If he is a repeat offender for the weapons charge, he can be jailed for between two and eight years and given at least six strokes of the cane.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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