Very creative robbery method!
Couple threw smelly liquid to distract theft victims
Chilean pair jailed for stealing $27,119 from three people
Couple threw smelly liquid to distract theft victims
Chilean pair jailed for stealing $27,119 from three people
Silva Arancibia (left) and Godoy Vivanco were arrested at Changi Airport in March. They were each jailed for two years. -- PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
By Elena Chong, Court Correspondent
A couple from Chile resorted to dirty tactics to distract three victims before making off with money they had withdrawn earlier from banks.
Octavio Guillermo Silva Arancibia, 63, and Marisol Del Carmen Godoy Vivanco, 51, created a diversion by throwing a foul-smelling liquid on the victims and offering to help them clean up.
On Wednesday, they were each sentenced to two years' jail for stealing a total of $27,119 from two women and a man between last November and March this year, in a ruse that the authorities say is the first of its kind ever prosecuted here.
Assistant Public Prosecutor Kalaiselvi Balakrishnan told the court last week that on Nov 8, dispatch rider Kosari Hassan, 64, was returning to the office after withdrawing $12,619 from HSBC when he felt something drop on his back.
By Elena Chong, Court Correspondent
A couple from Chile resorted to dirty tactics to distract three victims before making off with money they had withdrawn earlier from banks.
Octavio Guillermo Silva Arancibia, 63, and Marisol Del Carmen Godoy Vivanco, 51, created a diversion by throwing a foul-smelling liquid on the victims and offering to help them clean up.
On Wednesday, they were each sentenced to two years' jail for stealing a total of $27,119 from two women and a man between last November and March this year, in a ruse that the authorities say is the first of its kind ever prosecuted here.
Assistant Public Prosecutor Kalaiselvi Balakrishnan told the court last week that on Nov 8, dispatch rider Kosari Hassan, 64, was returning to the office after withdrawing $12,619 from HSBC when he felt something drop on his back.
