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Yoshitsune Minamoto
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Jun 14, 2010
Swiss teen jailed for burglary
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A SWISS teenager broke into a family friend's house with her boyfriend and got away with valuables totalling $1,583 less than two months after her release from prison for theft. Frederique Wanger, 19, admitted to housebreaking and theft of cash and property totalling $1,583 from Ms Rebekka Christa Aicher Koch, 50, at Sunset Way on May 4. The unemployed girl's alleged accomplice, Muhammad Nurashik Ahmad, 20, has been charged and his case is pending.
A district court heard that she got into the house between 1am and 2am by climbing over the perimeter wall. She went to the back of the house and climbed through an unlocked sliding window in the guest room. She stole two phones worth $733 and $850 cash in the living room. Investigation showed that Wanger was convicted and sentenced to five weeks' jail, backdated to Feb 19, for theft in March.
After serving her sentence, she was issued with an extended pass to remain here until April 26. She remained here since and had thus overstayed for nine days when she was caught in a Geylang hotel on May 5. Wanger, who pleaded guilty to overstaying and another charge of mobile phone theft, was jailed a total of 12 months and fined $1,000 on Monday. Two other trespass charges were taken into consideration in sentencing.
