3 Colombians jailed for housebreaking
By Claire Huang | Posted: 06 August 2012 1911 hrs
SINGAPORE: Three Colombians, who admitted to one of the largest housebreaking cases in recent years, were sentenced to between two-and-a-half and five years' jail on Monday.
Thirty-three-year-old Fernandez Zamora Edwin, 42-year-old Hernandez Beltran Edwin Neil and 43-year-old Luis Carlos Carrillo Ramirez admitted to stealing some S$300,000 worth of cash, jewellery and gold bars from a semi-detached home along Upper Serangoon Road on June 13 at about 8.30pm.
The trio had climbed over the low wall surrounding the house.
They then broke the kitchen window to gain entry.
For facing only this charge, Ramirez was jailed two-and-a-half years.
The three were in cahoots with 34-year-old Sarmiento Cardona Alvaro, who was also arrested.
Edwin and Neil also admitted to colluding with Alvaro to break into a property at Countryside Road.
The three men broke into the house on June 9 at about 7.30pm and made away with jewellery, collector stamps and cash amounting to some S$40,000.
For the two break-ins, and two other charges that were taken into consideration, Edwin and Neil were sentenced to five years' jail each.
The four men had come to Singapore in early June on social visit passes.
- CNA/cc
