Man with loan shark paraphernilia arrested on Lentor Avenue

This man should try his hand at being the next Banksy.

Police have arrested a 20-year-old man for suspected involvement in loan shark harassment yesterday at 3:45am.

At a road block along Lentor Avenue near Seletar Reservoir, oficers from Ang Mo Kio Police Division observed the man behaving suspiciously in a taxi. They found a loan shark paraphernalia in his possession.

The man is believed to have committed loan shark harassment at Ang Mo Kio Street 61 and Ang Mo Kio Avenue 4 by splashing paint on debtors’ units and scrawling loan shark-related graffiti on the walls of residential blocks.

The suspect will be charged in Court today for loan shark harassment under the Moneylenders Act (Revised Edition 2010).

First-time offenders found guilty of loan shark harassment shall be fined not less than $5,000 and not more than $50,000 with mandatory imprisonment of up to five years and mandatory caning of up to six strokes.

Photo (not the actual graffiti by the suspect) via Same Road Different Eyes