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A year out of prison and Singapore DJ Tenashar is back in court, accused of missing urine tests and cheating by impersonation

  • After serving a year of her 18-month jail sentence for drug possession, DJ Tenashar is back in court
  • She is charged with failing to provide urine tests and impersonating a social worker to try to get her passport back

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Troubled DJ Tenashar is back in court in Singapore, less than a year after completing her prison sentence for drug offences.
Haneesa Begum

Troubled Singaporean celebrity DJ Tenashar has been back in court on new charges this month. She is accused of failing to provide urine tests after serving time for drug offences and impersonating a social worker in an attempt to get her passport back.

The DJ – whose real name is Debbie Valerie Tenashar Long – was first arrested in October 2015 after a two-week trip to Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She was found in possession of psilocin – a banned substance found in most psychedelic mushrooms – and tested positive for cocaine.

Long was granted bail and fled the country, only returning to Singapore when her passport expired in May 2018. She was sentenced to 18 months in jail the same month. After being released early in May 2019, Long failed to report to Jurong Police Division headquarters for three scheduled urine tests between July 22 and 29 last year.

She is now also charged with one count of attempted cheating by impersonation in an alleged attempt to retrieve her passport. In December 2019, she allegedly impersonated an employee of the Singapore Association of Social Workers in an email requesting the return of her passport, sent to the Immigration and Checkpoint Authority (ICA).

DJ Tenashar was sentenced to 18 months in prison in May 2018 and served 12 months.
DJ Tenashar was sentenced to 18 months in prison in May 2018 and served 12 months.

Long was subject to two years of supervision after her release from prison, and forbidden from leaving Singapore without approval. However, on July 4, Long allegedly left Singapore without approval.

The next day, she was found asleep on a hotel lobby couch in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, where she was not registered as a guest. The Singaporean DJ claimed she had been kidnapped, robbed and beaten by a group of men who were commissioned by a Singaporean narcotics officer in charge of her case.
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