Two boys got into a fight with the owner of a cereal barn in Orchard Plaza on their first day of sightseeing in Singapore.
The three boys armed themselves with weapons from a retailer and went back to the barn for a fight after lying to their eldest brother about being attacked.
On Thursday ( Dec 5 ), 25-year-old Albert Max Martinez-Arizala, 21-year-old Alexis Jesus Martinez-Arizala and 18-year-old Alejandro Martinez-Arizala Jr each pleaded guilty to one charge of being armed with a knife.
Albert was sentenced to six weeks ‘ jail, Alexis to four weeks ‘ imprisonment, and Alejandro to a short detention order ( SDO ) of the maximum 14 days.
An SDO is a community-based statement that detains an offender in jail. It is intended to serve as a deterrent by allowing a violator to go to jail while never leaving behind a criminal history.
All three Americans showed up in court wearing suit and carrying family people.
Reasoning AT THE PORRIDGE STALL
The boys ‘ prosecutor was informed that they left for Melbourne three weeks after arriving in Singapore on July 26.
After checking into their lodge, they visited two leagues around evening. On July 27, they traveled to a second membership in Orchard at around 5am, but when they arrived, they realized it was closed.
Albert left his two younger brothers at the club’s gate to look for an automatic teller machine to withdraw money.
He ended up being separated from his sons for about an hour as he struggled to withdraw cash and tried to solve this with the lender.
Alexis and Alejandro also made their way around the neighborhood at this time. They arrived at Tai Heng Teochew Porridge Stall on the first surface of Orchard Plaza around 6:30 am.
When they spoke to the two ladies seated at a desk at the porridge barn, Alexis leant onto a moving split.
The owner of the oatmeal barn, Mr Zhang Zhiqiang, noticed this and told Alexis not to move on the separation as it was unsafe.
Alexis scolded Mr Zhang in profit, and the older man responded violently, asking Alexis what his difficulty was.
A different man, who identified himself as the partner of one of the two ladies, inquired if Alexis and Alejandro knew his partner. They replied not, stating that they were attempting to get to know the females.
Alexis gestured for a battle in a verbal altercation that broke out. Alejandro even gestured in the same way to his brother.
Passers-by tried to calm the situation down, and the two sons left several minutes afterward.
KNIVES AND FRYING PAN Military
By using a passer-by’s phone to reach their family, who was in the United States, Alexis and Alejandro were able to find their eldest sibling Albert.
By the time the three sons reunited, Albert had the idea that Alexis and Alejandro had been “attacked” by five persons for leaning on a split at a meal barn.
Alexis and Alejandro always got attacked at the barn, but they lied, according to Deputy Public Prosecutor Joelle Loy.
They told Albert that they wanted to go back to the cereal stand to fight their alleged intruders. Seeing that his sons were furious, Albert agreed to this.
Youngest nephew Alejandro suggested that they not returning to the barn unarmed because he was worried about being outnumbered.
For almost S$ 130 ( US$ 97 ), they went to a local supermarket and purchased three house weapons, a frying pan, and a jug of bath solution. Each blade had an 18cm-long edge.
” YOU FAT… BELUGA… WHALE”
Around two and a half hours after Alexis and Alejandro’s initial departure, the boys made their way back to the porridge barn. At the time, there were at least nine users standing.
Albert emailed a worker at the oatmeal barn to ask who had attacked his sons.
He held up the pan and toilet cleaner while looking in the direction of the worker before raising the blade in a threatening way.
The employer claimed that the boys should leave and that he had no idea.
Albert walked to the fixed split where five clients were seated, holding on to the knife, plate, and restroom cleaner.
The co-owner of the barn called the police after discovering the boys ‘ arms.
Around this time, the weapon was in Albert’s up bag, where it ripped a hole in the fabric and dropped to the floor. This made a loud noise that both the co-owner and the users began to quarrel over.
The boys continued to search for Mr. Zhang, who had already left. The co-owner attempted to explain that Mr. Zhang wasn’t present.
Using obscenities, Alexis exclaimed at her:” You large… Beluga… dolphin”! Additionally, he claimed that sooner, Mr. Zhang had pushed and hit him.
Alexis was offended by this and told the co-owner that he had no obligation to attack her because she was just working at the stall. Albert told his younger boys to keep her only, and they thanked her.
After that, Albert attempted to negotiate payment for the alleged assault of his younger brothers, which was eventually settled for S$ 300 and therefore S$ 200. The co-owner did not pay him any income.
By this point, Albert had instructed his younger sons to keep the barn. In a female toilet, Alexis and Alejandro entered the Orchard Point shopping mall and disposed of the knives and plate.
Around 9.20am, the officers arrived at the porridge barn and managed to locate Alexis and Alejandro in Orchard Point. Additionally, they discovered and seized the weapons and plate.
Around lunch the same day, the boys were detained.
ANXIOUS ABOUT BEING OUTNUMBERED
The court ordered all three brothers to serve judicial conditions, with the length of time being set by the trial.
Ms. Loy claimed that remedial measures like probation were not possible in cases involving international nationals without a family in Singapore.
Additionally, she claimed that there was no justification for rehabilitation for the violators because they would be repatriated after serving their statements.
She highlighted that the Martinez-Arizala sons offended boldly, in a team and in large daylight, and caused anxiety with their activities.
They exclusively obtained their weapons to challenge Mr. Zhang, and it was only foreshadowed that they could not possibly locate him, she claimed.
A Rajandran, a defense attorney, initially requested a fine for the brothers, but later changed his request to get judicial terms.
Before coming to Singapore, Mr. Rajandran claimed that the boys had been victims of a robbery in Thailand. They were worried about being outnumbered at the oatmeal stall because they were outnumbered in that assault, he said.
However, Principal District Judge Toh Han Li argued that this was unimportant because the boys were not robbed in Singapore.
” For what it’s worth, these are three younger people who are foreigners in an unfamiliar country, in a strange atmosphere”, Mr Rajandran told the jury.
He added that Albert, as the eldest, was “protective” of his younger boys and made a “mistake” in view by choosing to fight instead of walking away from the situation.
Judge Toh had a problem with the attorney trying to argue that the boys did not purchase the knives for the purpose of confrontation.
The judge alleged that Alexis and Alejandro had left the cereal stall more than two hours earlier and that there had been no “incident longer” but that their return and the return’s purpose had to be for a confrontation.
In punishment, Judge Toh said that the boys premeditated and planned the crime, as they went to the supermarket to purchase the blades. They even did not arm themselves in self-defence but for fight.
He acknowledged each friend’s contribution to the situation; Alejandro suggested they did not leave the stand armed, Alexis insulted the co-owner’s look, insisting that Mr. Zhang had hit and shoved him, and Albert raised the weapon in a threatening posture.
Judge Toh said that parole was inappropriate because the youngest, Alejandro, was a stranger and lacked the family support system in Singapore to finish his probation.
Additionally, the judge rejected Mr. Rajandran’s ask to change Alexis and Alejandro’s words so that they could spend seven days in custody. He ordered their words not to be backdated.
The boys informed the court that on Thursday, they may begin serving their words.
A person who is found armed with a tool that is likely to produce death, without lawful authority or function, can be jailed for up to two years, fined, or both.