Ah, the folly of youth. A Certis Cisco officer is being charged for having a bit of dangerous fun with his colleague last year, playing a game that saw him squeezing a round off his revolver.
In an attempt to cover his tracks (because it’s an offence to just shoot your gun for reasons other than performing your duty as an officer) 22-year-old Gregory Lai tried to dispose of the spent round and cooked up a story about losing his bullets.
The Straits Times reports that Lai was charged yesterday with committing a rash act to endanger human life, intentionally obstructing the course of justice and giving false information to a public servant.
Allegedly, he shot off a round from his revolver on Aug 13 last year at Tuas Checkpoint while playing a game “akin to Russian Roulette”. A Muhammad Dzul Adhar Azmi witnessed the whole shenanigan, but it’s unclear if he was involved in the game.
Later that evening, Lai purportedly removed the spent round from under a table and hid it in a traffic wand. A different bullet was disposed in a portable toilet nearby.
It was done to support the story he told the police at Jurong Police Division Headquarters the next day — he claimed that he accidentally dropped two 0.38 bullets into a toilet.
The truth got out eventually, and in court, Lai intends to plead guilty on June 14. In total, he could be jailed for up to eight-and-a-half years as well as face over $7,000 in fines.
