{"id":94473,"date":"2026-10-20T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=94473"},"modified":"2026-10-20T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:03:00","slug":"teens-arrested-after-bukit-merah-minimart-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=94473","title":{"rendered":"Teens arrested after Bukit Merah minimart theft"},"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 Two boys are due to be charged on Oct 21 with housebreaking and theft after cash and cigarettes were reported stolen from a minimart in Bukit Merah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a statement on <!-- -->Oct 20<!-- -->, the police said they were alerted to a case of housebreaking and theft at a minimart in <!-- -->Jalan Bukit Merah at about 7.15am on Oct 19<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Cash of about $2,100<!-- --> <!-- -->and 290<!-- --> packets of cigarettes valued at about <!-- -->$3,000<!-- --> were allegedly stolen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Officers from the Central Police Division identified the two boys, aged <!-- -->15 and 17<!-- -->, through ground inquiries and with the help of police camera and CCTV images.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">After their arrest,<!-- --> $462 in cash and 203 packets of cigarettes<!-- --> were recovered and seized from them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">If found guilty, they may be jailed for up to <!-- -->10 years and fined<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In their statement, the police advised property owners to secure doors, roller shutters, windows and other openings with grills and padlocks when leaving the property unattended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Owners should also not keep large sums of cash and valuables in the property, police said, adding that they should install a burglar alarm, motion sensor light or CCTVs to cover access points.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/two-teens-arrested-after-cash-over-290-packs-of-cigarettes-stolen-from-bukit-merah-minimart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 Two boys are due to be charged on Oct 21 with housebreaking and theft after cash and cigarettes were reported stolen from a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94474,"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-94473","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\/94473","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=94473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}