The Police have arrested two men, aged 23 and 44 for their suspected involvement in a case of voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery.
On 31 May 2022, at about 12.45am, the Police were alerted to a case of robbery where a 63-year-old male victim was allegedly assaulted and robbed by two men along Jurong West Street 52. The men purportedly took the victim’s handphone before they fled.
Through extensive ground enquiries and with the aid of images from Police cameras, officers from Jurong Police Division, Criminal Investigation Department, Police Intelligence Department, Police Operations and Command Centre and Tanglin Police Division established the identity of the two men and arrested them within six hours of the reported crime. The victim’s handphone was recovered upon the men’s arrest.
The men will be charged in court on 1 June 2022 with voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery under Section 394 of the Penal Code 1871. The offence carries an imprisonment term of five to 20 years and not less than 12 strokes of the cane.
SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
31 May 2022 @ 5:35 PM