SINGAPORE: A 23-year-old Singaporean man was charged in court on Wednesday (Oct 2) with multiple wildlife offences, including amputating the leg of a mouse without anaesthesia and selling multiple animals such as a corn snake and a box turtle.<\/p>\n
Jenson Neo was handed 13 charges, mostly under the Wildlife Act.<\/p>\n
According to the charge sheets, he is accused of committing the offences between January 2022 and February 2024.<\/p>\n
In January 2022, Neo allegedly took two mangrove snakes from an unknown location without written approval from the director-general of wildlife management.<\/p>\n
In July 2022, he allegedly amputated the front right leg of a mouse without the necessary anaesthesia and analgesia to alleviate its pain, when he was not a qualified veterinarian.<\/p>\n
This caused unnecessary pain and suffering to the animal, the charge stated.<\/p>\n
On Jul 7, 2023, Neo allegedly offered for sale on Telegram a bird belonging to the Falconiformes order, a protected wildlife species.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Jul 11, 2023, Neo allegedly kept a reticulated python at a house in Jalan Dermawan, in the Hillview area in Bukit Batok.<\/p>\n
Neo is accused of offering a Malayan box turtle for sale on Telegram on Aug 11, 2023. About a month later, he allegedly sold a sugar glider to a person named Lisa for S$50.<\/p>\n
In October 2023, Neo allegedly took a colugo or flying lemur from Dairy Farm Nature Park without approval.<\/p>\n
In January 2024, Neo allegedly sold a corn snake to a “Lionel Ng” for S$250 without approval from the director-general of wildlife management.<\/p>\n
Later that month, he allegedly took a common palm civet from somewhere in Jalan Dermawan without written approval.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Neo was caught after selling the civet at a playground to a National Parks Board officer who was presumably undercover. He is said to have tried to flee and opened the cage to release the animal.<\/p>\n
Neo indicated that he would plead guilty and was given a date to do so on Nov 7.<\/p>\n
For causing unnecessary pain or suffering to an animal, Neo could be jailed for up to 18 months, fined up to S$15,000, or both.<\/p>\n
For taking wildlife from any place without approval, he could be jailed for up to six months, fined up to S$10,000, or both.<\/p>\n
For offering protected wildlife for sale, Neo could be jailed for up to two years, fined up to S$50,000, or both.<\/p>\n
For selling wildlife, he could be jailed for up to 12 months, fined up to S$10,000, or both.<\/p>\n
For hindering an enforcement officer, he could be jailed for up to 12 months, fined up to S$10,000, or both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINGAPORE: A 23-year-old Singaporean man was charged in court on Wednesday (Oct 2) with multiple wildlife offences, including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,1108,48,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-186072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-court","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}