The two foreign men who allegedly burgled a landed estate in the Holland Road area on Dec 16 entered a home through an adjacent house that was under construction.
While one of them looted the Greenleaf View home, the other is believed to have kept watch outside.
On Dec 26, police officers took Chinese nationals Zhang Yongxiang, 52, and Feng Yunlong, 38, to the three-storey property.
ST understands that Zhang purportedly scaled over into the victim’s house from the third floor of the construction site. Feng is believed to have kept a lookout outside the two units.
According to court documents, Zhang entered the property by pushing open a sliding window.
The duo stole a Cartier Roadster watch valued at $8,800 and a Casio Edifice watch worth $150.
The house was burgled on Dec 16 around 9pm while the owners were away.
The victims reported the incident on Dec 18.
Zhang and Feng have been linked to another report of housebreaking and theft at a property in Zehnder Road in Buona Vista, which was burgled during the day on Dec 18, the police said.
Police officers identified the duo after studying security camera footage from the area.
They traced them to a hotel in Joo Chiat and arrested them at around 6pm on Dec 18.
The Straits Times
