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SINGAPORE \u2013 A burglar who stole from homes in Sentosa and Serangoon Gardens was jailed on Aug 14.<\/p>\n
Chinese national Huang Xiaozong, 41, was sentenced to 44 months\u2019 jail.<\/p>\n
He had previously pleaded guilty<\/span><\/a> to two counts of housebreaking. A third charge for criminal trespass was taken into consideration for sentencing.<\/p>\n It was the first time Huang had been in Singapore. He arrived here as a tourist on Dec 5, 2025, and checked into a hotel in Little India.<\/p>\n Seeing that it was a nice country, he planned to burgle homes, and researched where the affluent areas were.<\/p>\n On Dec 6, 2025, he went to Sentosa and came across a suite at a luxury hotel there.<\/p>\n The victim lived at the suite occasionally and was abroad at the time.<\/p>\n Seeing that no one was inside, Huang entered the unit through its rear balcony door and forced open the sliding door.<\/p>\n He found a Chanel watch valued at $30,000, five rings worth $25,000 and a gold necklace worth $3,000.<\/p>\n He stole the items and brought them back to his hotel.<\/p>\n The next day, Huang went to Serangoon Gardens and spotted a house that appeared to be empty, without any lights switched on.<\/p>\n He climbed over the gate and stole over $47,000 worth of jewellery in the house, including rings and necklaces.<\/p>\n But even after that heist, he wanted to burgle another property in the area.<\/p>\n He had climbed over the gate of a house in Serangoon Gardens, but was spotted by a domestic helper who asked him what he was doing.<\/p>\n Huang fled and the police traced him back to his hotel and arrested him on Dec 8, 2025.<\/p>\n He had stolen $105,000 worth of items.<\/p>\n For each count of housebreaking, Huang could have been jailed for up to 10 years and fined.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A burglar who stole from homes in Sentosa and Serangoon Gardens was jailed on Aug 14. Chinese national Huang Xiaozong, 41, was sentenced…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73344,"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-76455","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\/76455","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=76455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Spotted<\/h2>\n
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