Posted on 05/15/2020 7:11:29 PM PDT by Theoria
Brian Dugan Yeargan sentenced to four weeks in prison after leaving hotel room for three hours to buy masks and thermometer
An American cargo pilot who admitted to “poor judgment” in breaking a quarantine order to buy medical supplies has become the first foreigner imprisoned in Singapore for breaching its restrictions meant to curb the coronavirus.
FedEx pilot Brian Dugan Yeargan, 44, from Eagle River in Alaska, was sentenced to four weeks on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to leaving his hotel room for three hours to buy masks and a thermometer.
Singapore has one of the largest outbreaks in Asia, with 26,000 cases. More than 90% of those infected are foreign workers living in crowded dormitories, while the government recently began easing restrictions for the local population.
The tiny city-state has strict penalties for those who breach quarantine rules, don’t wear masks in public or fail to adhere to social distancing measures. Quarantine violators face up to six months in jail, a fine of up to 10,000 Singapore dollars ($7,000) or both.
Yeargan’s defense lawyer Ronnie Tan said that he and his two co-pilots were taken to an airport hotel to serve 14-day quarantines upon arriving from Sydney on 3 April because they had visited China, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan and the United States in the two weeks before their arrival.
When health officials checked on Yeargan, they found him missing from his room on 5 April. Yeargan told the court he took the metro downtown to buy a thermometer and a few boxes of masks before he was to fly home on 6 April.
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Well at least he’s not getting caned.
Beat me by 14 seconds - well done.
Gives a whole new meaning to the “Singapore Sling”.
>> leaving his hotel room for three hours to buy masks and a thermometer.
That’s a long walk to the supply store.
They’ll be doing the same in L.A. soon.
When you absolutely positively got to go to jail overnight.
I'll bet that his butt still hurts AND he has stopped spray painting cars.
Strange side effect of caning.
“That’s a long walk to the supply store.”
He may have detoured down Bugis Street.
It was a rectal thermometer?
For those who don’t remember, Michael Fay’s parents appealed to the public and President Clinton to stop this ‘barbaric’ punishment. To their shock, they found that most Americans approved of his punishment and wished its like would be administered here against petty criminals.
When in Singapore, obey their laws. It is that simple.
On the immigration card, stamped in RED letters: “Death to Drug dealers.” They mean it. This is not Moline, IL, where “they don’t know shit about drug dealing.” (Paraphrased punch line of a very old joke) Don’t even chew gum....”they are watching you!”
As a kid I was laughing hard when he told a interviewer that ‘“my buttocks was bare” as they cane him
I wonder if she told him her real name?
bkmk
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