SINGAPORE \u2013 A 32-year-old man who allegedly concealed a 19cm knife in his sock at Changi Airport was charged on Aug 29 with carrying an offensive weapon in a public place.<\/p>\n
Charge sheets stated that Syaifudin Alfitroh, an Indonesian national, was carrying a pointed knife measuring 19.5cm at the airport\u2019s Terminal 4 departure hall at about 12.45pm on Aug 27.<\/p>\n
The knife, which had a 12cm blade, was wrapped in multiple layers of plastic bags and tape.<\/p>\n
The police said in a statement on Aug 28 that the knife was detected by an X-ray machine<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n Syaifudin was escorted to a search room, where the knife was found in his right high-cut shoe.<\/p>\n The knife, which had a 12cm blade, was wrapped in multiple layers of plastic bags and tape.<\/p>\n PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n In their statement, the police said they take a serious view of any attempt to bring offensive weapons into public spaces.<\/p>\n They said: \u201cTravellers are reminded that those found in possession of offensive weapons without lawful purpose will be dealt with firmly in accordance with the law.\u201d<\/p>\n Syaifudin is in remand, and his case will be heard again on Sept 7.<\/p>\n If convicted, he can face up to three years\u2019 jail and a minimum of six strokes of the cane.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A 32-year-old man who allegedly concealed a 19cm knife in his sock at Changi Airport was charged on Aug 29 with carrying an…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80394,"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-81058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81058","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=81058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/picture><\/div>
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