Six youths arrested for housebreaking
Posted: 25 June 2012 2117 hrs
SINGAPORE: Six youths, including a nine-year-old girl, have been arrested for breaking into a provision shop at Holland Close. They were nabbed seven hours after the shop owner filed a police report.
Police said the suspects, three boys and three girls, aged 9 to 17, were arrested on Sunday afternoon, June 24.
The 51-year-old victim told the police at around 12 noon that his provision shop had been broken into and S$1,800 in cash were missing.
Police officers established the identity of the first suspect, a 12-year-old girl, after looking through CCTV footage from the shop. She was arrested in Commonwealth Crescent at about 4.40pm.
The five other suspects were rounded up in the same neighbourhood nearly two hours later, at 6.20pm.
Preliminary investigations revealed that three of the suspects entered the provision shop from a rear door with stolen keys, while the rest acted as lookouts. Investigations are ongoing.
-CNA/ac