The Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) arrested 11 people during two separate operations on Monday (Aug 3).
It seized about 2.3kg of heroin and about 1.8kg of ‘Ice’ (methamphetamine) among other drugs. The drugs have an estimated street value of more than $500,000.
The suspected leaders of both syndicates were among those nabbed.
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A domestic worker who stole cash and property amounting to more than $160,000 from her employer was sentenced to 18 months’ jail on Tuesday.
Muinah, 35, admitted to three of five charges. Two were for theft as a servant and the other for removing a $60,000 Franck Muller watch and a $35,000 Van Cleef & Arpels watch she had stolen from the jurisdiction of Singapore.
A district court heard that Muinah had been working for Ms Esther Minah Mohamed Shah, 33, at her home in Bishan since May 2013.
Before her employer and her husband moved to a rented house in Nim Road, she asked Muinah to help keep all her jewellery in a luggage last September.
Muinah was packing the luggage when she stole the two watches and hid them inside the kitchen cabinet.
She subsequently handed the watches to another Indonesian maid known as Dewi who was returning home. She asked Dewi to hand the two watches to her mother in her home town in Indonesia. Dewi agreed.
Between Oct 1 last year and May 9 this year, Muinah was cleaning the house at Nim Road when she stole cash and jewellery totalling $65,157.
After stealing the items, she would hide them inside her personal bag and then underneath the refrigerator outside the store room of the house.
Before Ms Minah lodged a police report on May 9, she made a check and found local and foreign currencies as well as some pieces of jewellery under the refrigerator.
After realising that the maid had stolen the two watches, Ms Minah’s husband flew to Indonesia and managed to get them back from the maid’s mother.
Citing aggravating factors, Deputy Public Prosecutor Houston Johannus said Muinah hadabused her position of trust; the value of the stolen items was high; and the offences happened over a period of time.
District Judge Hamidah Ibrahim backdated Muinah’s sentence to May 11.
The maximum penalty for theft as a servant is seven years’ jail and a fine, and for removing property outside jurisdiction, she could have been fined up to $500,000 and/or jailed for up to seven years.
Source: www.straitstimes.com
A kind soldier was seen sheltering an elderly man, who was waiting for a taxi, from the pouring rain on Monday morning.
In a heart-warming photo captured by a photojournalist from Shin Min Daily News, Mr Christopher Ang, a military expert with the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF), is seen holding an umbrella while he stands next to the elderly man in Bedok North.
According to the evening daily, Mr Pargan Singh, 78, was waiting for a taxi to take him to Changi General Hospital for a medical appointment when he was caught in the downpour.
The retiree suffered a stroke 15 years ago which impaired his movement and affected his speech.
In an interview with Shin Min, Mr Pargan said that his wife and children had left for work earlier and his maid had to stay home to care for his 92-year-old father. It was only drizzling when he left the house, so he did not bring an umbrella. But it started to pour as he waited for a taxi.
Mr Ang had approached Mr Pargan with an umbrella and waited with him for about 20 minutes before he managed to hail a taxi. After Mr Pargan boarded the cab, Mr Ang headed towards his own vehicle at a nearby carpark.
The photograph of the two men, which was posted on Shin Min’s Facebook page on Monday, has garnered nearly 1,500 likes, with many netizens praising the young man for his kindness.
In a post on Facebook on Tuesday, the RSAF also saluted the soldier for his act of kindness.
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Supermodel Gisele Bundchen is a laughing stock among fellow Brazilians for an apparent boob job.
She is being ridiculed not so much for the boob job, as plastic surgery is common in Brazil.
The supermodel received the flak because she hid under an all-covering burqa as she walked into the clinic, reported New York Post.
It showed the model mum, 35, wearing the burqa to disguise herself while entering the plastic surgeon’s office in Paris last month.
She was with her sister Rafaela, who was also wearing a burqa.
Sources told the New York Post that after Gisele and Ms Rafaela posed as devout Muslims to secretly enter the clinic, they both underwent overnight surgical procedures.
The two were seen wearing open-toed sandals in the photos, which some Muslim women consider inappropriate in public, reported the Daily Mail.
Some Brazilians went online to criticise her hypocrisy.
“She went through all this trouble just so she could say that her beauty is absolutely ‘natural’, ” said Paulo, commenting on a Brazilian news website.
“It’s laughable!”
The world’s highest paid supermodel had previously said there was “no way” she would ever consider plastic surgery.
“I have never had plastic surgery, nor have I ever felt the need to do any kind of intervention,” she had said in 2011, when asked about rumours of a nose job.
Bundchen, who took to social media on Friday for the first time since the burqa episode by posting an Instagram photo of herself in a yoga pose, has not commented on the incident yet.
Last year, more than two million Brazilians – roughly 1 per cent of the country’s total population – had plastic surgery, according to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.
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They seemed to be madly in love.
She had his name inked across her chest and he was willing to do anything for her.
That love, however, ended in tragedy on Feb 1 in a hotel room at Geylang.
Indonesian Ruli Widyawati, 28, was found on the floor covered in blood.
The body of Indian national Chinnasamy Baskar, 30, was hanging above the toilet bowl.
A coroner’s inquiry on Tuesday revealed Mr Chinnasamy’s jealousy that plagued their relationship, including his death threats towards Ms Ruli, whom he suspected of seeing other men.
A handwritten note found in his bag gave an insight into how their love had descended into murderous jealousy.
It told of a spurned lover who was so consumed by suspicion she was seeing other men that he made up a list to question her about them. He even threatened to cut off her fingers one by one.
Source: www.tnp.sg