Two boys charged with breaking into flat - StraitsTimes - 10 Aug 2010

By Teh Joo Lin

TWO teenagers were brought before a district court yesterday morning for allegedly breaking into a flat and making off with $840 in valuables.


The boys, both 15, could not be named as they are juveniles.

They were said to have broken into a unit on the 13th floor of a housing block in Choa Chu Kang Avenue 5 on July 17.

Between 3am and 5.30am, the boys are said to have forced open an aluminium window grille and climbed through the window.

The loot, which was worth $840, included a wallet containing $140, two mobile phones and an iPod music player.

The court ordered the teens to be remanded at the boys' home for a week.

The police singled out youth crime as a key concern last week, when they released an assessment of the crime situation for the first half of this year.

One in four of the 8,653 people caught during this period were youth, who landed in trouble for crimes such as rioting and theft.

Those convicted of breaking into a home at night for theft can be jailed between two and 14 years.

Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/Singapore/Story/STIStory_564064.html