{
  "id": 16016519,
  "title": "Trio who planned burglaries of landed homes in Singapore, stealing S$644,700, gets jail",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/trio-who-planned-burglaries-of-landed-homes-in-singapore-stealing-s",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-22T08:09:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CNA - Singapore",
    "slug": "cna-singapore",
    "url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/foreign-spanish-mexican-burglary-landed-homes-jail-6481751"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Three foreign men who planned burglaries in Singapore and stole valuables worth S$644,700 were sentenced to jail on Thursday, October 22. Hernando Giraldo Franco, a 62-year-old Spanish-Colombian man, received a six-year-and-eight-month sentence. Garcia Iglesias Hector Daniel, a 53-year-old Mexican man, and Garces Murillo Mateo Andres, a 49-year-old Mexican-Colombian national, each received a seven-year-and-four-month sentence. All three pleaded guilty to charges including theft, housebreaking and concealment of criminal benefits. The trio arrived in Singapore for the first time in April or May 2025 and devised a plan to burglarize landed homes by searching for private residential estates. They bought tools and disguised themselves before targeting houses with no lights or signs of human activity. On May 9, 2025, the trio broke into a house on Dunearn Close, stealing items worth about S$644,700, including gold coins, jewelry, diamond rings and earrings, luxury watches and cash. The following night, they attempted to break into a house on Eng Neo Avenue but fled when they heard noises. An elderly man noticed one of the men and alerted the others, causing one of them to slip on water. The trio was arrested near their hotel on May 11, and all stolen items were recovered.",
  "summary": "The men made away with S$644,700 in valuables from the first house they burgled but stole nothing from the second after an elderly man spotted them and made one of them slip on water.",
  "key_points": [
    "Three foreign men sentenced for burglaries in Singapore, stealing S$644,700",
    "Hernando Giraldo Franco receives six-year-and-eight-month sentence"
  ],
  "editors_take": "The coordinated targeting of private residential estates by foreign nationals highlights a calculated approach to high-value theft that relies on identifying homes with minimal signs of human activity.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/absolutely-ridiculous-singapore-shopee-shopper-orders-airpods-gets-a",
        "published": "2026-10-22T06:11:58.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "Trio who planned burglaries of landed homes in Singapore, stealing S$644,700, gets jail",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/trio-who-planned-burglaries-of-landed-homes-in-singapore-stealing-s-16019271",
        "published": "2026-10-22T08:09:52.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}