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POLICE gatecrashed an illegal gambling party at the Costa Sands Resort in Pasir Ris early on Wednesday and arrested 74 people from two adjacent chalet units.
The 39 women and 35 men, mostly Chinese nationals, were aged between 21 and 60. In the more than four-hour raid that started at about 12.45am, police also seized $1,104.
Asked whether those arrested belonged to a syndicate, the police would only say investigations were ongoing.
The NTUC Club, which manages the Costa Sands Resort, confirmed that it called the police in, but declined to say more, citing ongoing investigations.
When The Straits Times visited the resort on Wednesday, the stretches of chalets - grouped into sections alphabetically - appeared mostly unoccupied.
But some occupants in Section D of the resort said they had heard an early-morning commotion - shouting and sounds of breaking glass - in the last two units of Section C, units C-11 and C-12.
A 37-year-old housewife, who gave her name only as Jacqueline, said she heard the noise around midnight and mistook it for a gang fight.
An occupant in another unit, Miss H. Foo, a 21-year-old student, was playing cards with her friends at around midnight and also heard noises.
She said she looked out intermittently from the porch and back door of her chalet in the ensuing hours and saw people bleeding from head and hand injuries.
She said that the previous evening, she had noticed that one of the two units that were later raided had its curtains pulled shut; the other had its lights on, and, unaccountably, several mattresses in a room piled up.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_421947.html
POLICE gatecrashed an illegal gambling party at the Costa Sands Resort in Pasir Ris early on Wednesday and arrested 74 people from two adjacent chalet units.
The 39 women and 35 men, mostly Chinese nationals, were aged between 21 and 60. In the more than four-hour raid that started at about 12.45am, police also seized $1,104.
Asked whether those arrested belonged to a syndicate, the police would only say investigations were ongoing.
The NTUC Club, which manages the Costa Sands Resort, confirmed that it called the police in, but declined to say more, citing ongoing investigations.
When The Straits Times visited the resort on Wednesday, the stretches of chalets - grouped into sections alphabetically - appeared mostly unoccupied.
But some occupants in Section D of the resort said they had heard an early-morning commotion - shouting and sounds of breaking glass - in the last two units of Section C, units C-11 and C-12.
A 37-year-old housewife, who gave her name only as Jacqueline, said she heard the noise around midnight and mistook it for a gang fight.
An occupant in another unit, Miss H. Foo, a 21-year-old student, was playing cards with her friends at around midnight and also heard noises.
She said she looked out intermittently from the porch and back door of her chalet in the ensuing hours and saw people bleeding from head and hand injuries.
She said that the previous evening, she had noticed that one of the two units that were later raided had its curtains pulled shut; the other had its lights on, and, unaccountably, several mattresses in a room piled up.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_421947.html
