Man jailed after being caught trying to steal bra with an umbrella

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The man had tried and failed to steal a bra from a pole hanging on the second floor of a housing block in Yishun.

Ong Meng Xiang, 31, had tried to dislodge the bra with his umbrella from the ground floor. However his umbrella got caught in a clothes peg, and he was spotted by police officers before he could remove his umbrella.

Intention to steal bras in the wee hoursThe bra owner, a 39-year-old woman, had hung her laundry out to dry at her second floor unit in a block at Yishun Street 72, at about midnight on 7 September last year. He tried to dislodge the bra from the ground floor but was caught by police officers after his umbrella got stuck in the clothes peg at about 4.35am.Loitering around housing unitsEarlier this year, Ong was also spotted behaving suspiciously by another female resident at Yishun Street 22.

The woman asked Ong what he was doing, but Ong replied that he was just walking around for fresh air. Feeling suspicious, the woman called the police, stating that Ong was “loitering at her corridor” at about 2.40am.

 

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