<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>April 24, 2009
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Two Vietnamese jailed <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Elena Chong
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->TWO Vietnamese who came to Singapore for a holiday had their stay extended when they each landed in jail for six months for mobile phone theft.
Nguyen Tan Hung, 18, and Ha Dinh Thuan, 23, pleaded guilty on Friday (apr 24) to four charges of theft of cellphones from shoppers at VivoCity shopping mall last Thursday.
Three of the victims, aged 15, 19 and 20, were at Daiso store at the HarbourFront Walk mall when Nguyen picked their mobile phones and passed them to his accomplice to avoid being caught.
A fourth victim, a 20-year-old unemployed woman, was going down the escalator to Basement 1 when she found her $400 phone missing from her bag.
All the phones totalling $1,650 were recovered.
Nguyen had arrived in Singapore a day before (apr 15) while Ha flew here on April 5. Both men, who had a charge of fraudulent possession taken into consideration, could have been jailed for up to three years and fined on each charge.
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Two Vietnamese jailed <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Elena Chong
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->TWO Vietnamese who came to Singapore for a holiday had their stay extended when they each landed in jail for six months for mobile phone theft.
Nguyen Tan Hung, 18, and Ha Dinh Thuan, 23, pleaded guilty on Friday (apr 24) to four charges of theft of cellphones from shoppers at VivoCity shopping mall last Thursday.
Three of the victims, aged 15, 19 and 20, were at Daiso store at the HarbourFront Walk mall when Nguyen picked their mobile phones and passed them to his accomplice to avoid being caught.
A fourth victim, a 20-year-old unemployed woman, was going down the escalator to Basement 1 when she found her $400 phone missing from her bag.
All the phones totalling $1,650 were recovered.
Nguyen had arrived in Singapore a day before (apr 15) while Ha flew here on April 5. Both men, who had a charge of fraudulent possession taken into consideration, could have been jailed for up to three years and fined on each charge.
