Trio arrested for robbery with hurt and drug-related offences

            The Police have arrested two men and a woman, aged between 35 and 50, for their suspected involvement in a case of robbery with hurt and drug-related offences.

2          On 25 February 2020 at about 5.10pm, the Police received a report from a 33-year-old male victim that he had been robbed of his sling bag containing various cards, cash and a mobile phone, and assaulted by two unknown men along Stirling Road. The two men were accompanied by a woman.

3          Through investigations and with the aid of images from police cameras, officers from Clementi Police Division established the identities of the suspects and arrested the 35-year-old woman and the 42-year-old man along Choa Chu Kang Road on 27 February 2020. A subsequent raid of their rented unit in the same vicinity found drugs amounting to about 4g of ‘Ice’, 300g of new psychoactive substances and 440g of heroin, within the unit. 

4          In a joint Singapore Police Force-Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) operation, the third suspect, a 50-year-old man, was arrested in a residential unit along Segar Road. About 40g of new psychoactive substances was found on him.

5        The two men will be charged on 28 February 2020 with robbery with hurt, under Section 394 of the Penal Code, Chapter 224. The offence carries an imprisonment for a term not less than 5 years and not more than 20 years and caning with not less than 12 strokes. Police and CNB investigations against all suspects are ongoing.

SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
CENTRAL NARCOTICS BUREAU
28 FEBRUARY 2020 @ 3:10 PM