{"id":90943,"date":"2026-10-07T11:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=90943"},"modified":"2026-10-07T11:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:54:08","slug":"man-referred-to-police-for-bomb-remarks-at-woodlands-checkpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=90943","title":{"rendered":"Man referred to police for bomb remarks at Woodlands checkpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text-primary article-summary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 A man was referred to  police on Oct 4 after he allegedly <!-- -->made remarks about a bomb in his vehicle<!-- --> to<!-- --> <!-- -->Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers at<!-- --> <!-- -->Woodlands Checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a Facebook post on Oct 6, ICA said the<!-- --> <!-- -->35-year-old Singaporean<!-- --> was travelling with five companions in his vehicle when they were directed to undergo enhanced checks at the Arrival Cargo Zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">After the checks had concluded,<!-- --> <!-- -->the man<!-- --> \u201ctaunted ICA officers about finding a bomb in his vehicle<!-- -->\u201d,<!-- --> <!-- -->the authority said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201c<!-- -->Officers immediately cordoned off the area and additional resources were activated to conduct further checks on the vehicle and the group of travellers,<!-- -->\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">ICA said no bomb was found in the vehicle, and<!-- --> <!-- -->the man was referred to the police at about 6.20pm<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">ICA reminded<!-- --> travellers to conduct themselves in an orderly manner and comply with officers\u2019 instructions at the checkpoints.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201c<!-- -->All reports of security threats will be thoroughly investigated,\u201d it said. \u201cWe will not hesitate to act against those who make false or misleading claims that may cause unnecessary alarm.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/man-referred-to-police-after-making-bomb-remarks-at-woodlands-checkpoint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A man was referred to police on Oct 4 after he allegedly made remarks about a bomb in his vehicle to Immigration and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90944,"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-90943","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\/90943","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=90943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}