A 53-year-old Singaporean named Chia Chee Khiang was charged on April 6 for defacing a police vehicle just a day after completing a jail term for prior mischief offences, The Straits Times reports. He was remanded at the medical centre of Changi Prison Complex for evaluation following the new allegation.
On April 1, Chia received a 12-week prison sentence after admitting guilt to two counts of mischief and one count of theft involving items worth more than S$900. Court records indicate that on May 28, 2025, he allegedly took an iPad, a power bank and a bag from a badminton court on Jalan Membina. Then on February 5, 2026, he is said to have punched and kicked a S$1,000 laptop in a shop on the same street, before using a hammer to smash a S$1,200 display case, causing shards of glass to scatter. He pleaded guilty, was fined and released on S$5,000 bail.
In the latest incident, Chia is accused of using his key to scrape the doors of a parked police car on a service road near Block 83 Redhill Lane on or about April 2. Police received the report at around 7.40 pm and arrested him two days later. A police spokesperson stated that preliminary investigations showed Chia “came across the parked police vehicle and used his key to scratch its doors.”
His case is scheduled to return to court on April 20. Under Singapore law, acts of vandalism can attract fines up to S$2,000, imprisonment for up to three years and, for offenders under 50, three to eight strokes of the cane. Chia is exempt from caning due to his age.
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