Four girls nabbed for loan shark activities

Ong Dai Lin, dailin@mediacorp.com.sg

FOUR teenage girls between 15 and 16 years old were arrested over the weekend for suspected involvement in loan-shark activities.

At 8.30pm last Friday, a man was leaving his flat when he saw two girls behaving suspiciously at the corridor near a staircase landing of a block at Hougang Street 52. They fled when they realised that they had been spotted and the man gave chase. He was joined by his father who happened to be returning home at the time.

They caught one of the girls after a short chase. When the police arrived, they found a blue marker, cans and plastic bags of paint on the girl. The walls of the staircase landings where the girls were originally seen were daubed with graffiti, believed to be written by the teenagers.

The girl was arrested for suspected involvement in loan-sharking activities. Her three accomplices were arrested the next day.

Yesterday, two of the girls, Cessida Tham and Chua Hui Wen, both 16, were charged in court. They have been remanded for further investigation and are expected to be back in court next Monday. The other two have been released on bail, pending investigations.

From TODAY, News – Tuesday, 05-May-2009

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