It just doesn’t pay to commit crime in Singapore. A pair of shoplifters was apprehended at Singapore Changi International Airport less than an hour after they lifted several items from a retail store in Terminal 3.
Shoplifters Nabbed At Singapore Airport Before They Could Board Flight To India
Two young woman, 29 and 30, were browsing a Furla store during their transit in Changi Terminal 3 on June 2, 2025. A purse went missing and airport police were alerted. They quickly reviewed CCTV footage, allegedly found the moment in which one of the women stole the purse, and tracked them down. They were caught before they could board their connecting flight.
Police found the missing purse with the younger woman and then found a black haversack (a backpack-like object with a single shoulder strap) and a bottle of perfume, both of which were also deemed stolen.
(the total value of the three items was 635 SGD or 493 USD)
Singapore does not mess around: for that rather petty theft each woman, both Indian nationals, faces up to seven years in jail and a fine.
The airport police reiterated their deterrence efforts to prevent theft:
“The police will continue to work closely with stakeholders and the community to prevent and deter cases of shop theft.”
Can I ask a serious question: of all the places to steal something, why would you possibly think that in an airport full of cameras you could get away with it? I suppose had they stolen the items moments before boarding, they might have made it out of Singapore…but is a few hundred bucks worth becoming persona non grata in one of the greatest nations on earth? Is a few hundred bucks worth the steep fines and jail time that helps to keep Singapore as one of the safest nations on earth?
Maybe they figured that as long as they did not return to the scene of the crime (like this idiot), they would be okay?
I just don’t get it…you’re not going to outsmart Singapore.
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Hat Tip: SINJim
They probably had no idea of the seriousness that Singapore places on a crime of this nature.
Singapore has a reputation for caning people who dispose of trash on the foor in public instead of in trash cans. I’d be shocked if they were that ignorant.
Having a reputation does not mean everybody is going to know about it, a lot of people are not tuned into things like this.
Please do not spread false news. Litterbugs are sentenced to community service in public like sweeping and clearing trash in public areas according to my friends in Singapore. And cameras are everywhere, even at their public housing. So eyes are watching!
Meanwhile , the U.S. has identified the masked rioter who threw rocks at the police in L.A., and has offered a reward for assistance in apprehending him .
The dems are crying because the laws against rioting are being enforced .
You’re absolutely right. And it relates to this story because we have an entire political party who has worked hard to decriminalize things such as shoplifing (of under $1000) in order to secure votes and brick throwers. Meanwhile, Singapore takes crime seriously, thus preventing a slide down the mud slope into chaos. As we see in some of our more progressive cities.
It is amazing how people get triggered by any kind of story and start throwing in political comments.
@John, wake up and read the room. It’s only the biggest story in the World currently and the potential end of the Democrats as a serious party.
Watching the frontrunner for their nomination in 2028 see his campaign go down the drain with ready made opposition commercials is glorious to some of us.
@Dave … +1 . Meanwhile , Israel Protects it’s borders , and deported Greta ‘right quick’ .
Except Grera was going to Gaza, not Israel.
You managed to come up with that conclusion from the story about Singapore shoplifters. 🙂 Guess I need to read between the lines more closely. LOL.
You need to watch something besides Fox News. If you did, you would see that people all over the country are fighting back against a ‘wanna be’ fascist administration and winning! Another place democracy is winning is within the courts. Taco Trump is a big coward, and only a coward would attempt such blatant unlawfulness.
You guys enjoy your little perverted toy soldier parade this weekend as the world laughs at you, and the 65% of Americans who didn’t vote for the clown trying to pretend to be a strong man mobilize and continue to fight back.
The democrats needed something to galvanize them and once again Taco Trump has delivered. And the republicans know it….which is why they are doing everything in their power to force through all their deficit spending via reconciliation.
They know no one voted for what they are doing, and they are going to lose big in the midterms. Trump and his henchmen are just the clowns trying to distract people’s attention away from the real crimes they are committing.
And for items like yourself it continues to work. How pathetic.
@John
It shows you who the real snowflakes are.
The libs here agree with this punishment but are fine with illegal beaners looting Apple stores in LA and assaulting police.
But yea, I know, they arrested some illegals so let’s destroy the city.
@Dave … +1 . And some of the illegals who were arrested are deadly-serious-criminals . I say the police are to be commended and given a parade .
And then Camel-a and Newsdum cry and refer to them as “peace-loving” .
Trump is correct in giving the Army a parade .
President Trump could find the cure for cancer and the leftists would riot and burn down thier cities with thier phony outrage and paid protesters. Those places continue putting these same people in charge.
“President Trump could find the cure for cancer”… Hahaha! You made my day!
If Taco Trump found a cure for stupidity, he’d go bankrupt again.
My Tacos were decent today but damn your family didn’t look happy making them today. It’s sad they don’t appreciate being here but I assume all that looking over their shoulder is getting to them.
I was going to run in the door and yell ICE is coming and watch them panic but let’s face it, I really wanted those tacos.
Dear Racist Dave, your joke isn’t new anymore, it’s just incredibly boring.
You know where to stick your ultra-giant Trump Taco.
Seriously though, why can’t MAGA spell? It’s a recurring theme.
Singapore has a justice system that allows legal representation and due process. Something that our current administration finds too troubling. When the only success they have is deportation they are desperate to keep it in front of the news.
The thieves in Singapore will be served the justice they deserve.
Singapore DO NOT have prosecutors who ask for $0 bail for murderers and rapist.
Neither does Singapore have JUDGES who give judgement based on the party who out them in the court and not follow the laws of the land.
Only in America, Judges pass orders to bring back deported illegals with removal orders into USA.
Did you not understand my comment? There was nothing about zero bail. It is about procedure and transparency always being a good idea. Have a nice day
You should look up for the meaning of transparency.
“ but is a few hundred bucks worth becoming persona non grata in one of the greatest nations on earth?” By the way we have a different opinion on what is a “great nation”. But this stuff seldom seems to bother you with your infatuation with SE Asia and other 3rd world sh#tholes. I know, F the poor, right?
“ In current day Singapore, many women are trafficked into Singapore from Southeast Asian countries, mainly Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, under false pretenses of working as a domestic helper or other legal jobs.[2] These women are forced to work at a KTV or hostess clubs.[2] Many of these women were brought in through agents and are subject to heavy debts, lack of freedom to move around the country and they are unable to control if clients engage in safe and protected sex with them.[2] This has resulted in a rise in sexually transmitted diseases which have been unable to be controlled by the government”
And even worse are the conditions in the commie countries : Cambodia and Laos . Trump was correct in banning Laos , but there are other bad actors which could have been added to the list .
You should visit Singapore, Dave. It’s a jewel.
Not the women-traffic , it isn’t . There are criminal gangs all over SE Asia doing dirty work .
Alert there are criminal gangs doing trump’s dirty work here. Oath keepers. Proud Boys, the Klan, and Aryan nation. Don’t be so smug.
and give them 25 strokes with a bamboo cane!
Singapore is compassionate. They will not get the cane.
Women are not caned in Singapore. Men aged 18-50 are the only ones eligible for that particularly barbaric, mediaeval punishment, and only if a medical practitioner (who presumably trained at Changi POW camp during WW2) gives them a medical clearance.
What is it always with Indian nationals committing these kind of shoplifting crimes? And it is not just in Singapore either. There was a similar recent case by an Indian national at DFW too.
At EWR I was in a huge food court with lots of restaurants and a news store all in one… There was one checkout for all of them. I was curious and asked a manager, “doesn’t this make it so easy to steal from this huge area with these few checkouts.
He responded, “two reasons, in most cases people with enough money are not the same type of people who steal and second, everyone knows there are cameras everywhere in an airport.” He pointed to the ceiling and said “I counted once, in this food court alone there are over two dozen camera.
People are stoooooopid.
I know you practice a light touch approach to moderation, Matthew, but is using outright racist slurs really ok with you?
And of course they were Indian.