Pattaya burglar snatches over 50,000 baht from Chinese expat

A burglar managed to snatch more than 50,000 baht from a Chinese woman in East Pattaya on Sunday. The crook smashed the victim’s window and rummaged through the closet of 40 year old Ming Liang Xu.

The burglar stole 50,000 baht from the pocket of a pair of her trousers and another 1,000 baht left on a nightstand. The thief appeared to know his way around Ming’s home in Siam Royal Hill Village or maybe it was just pure luck the burglar knew which pair of trousers were stuffed with 50,000 baht. Police are now investigating the incident.

This news comes after another burglar stole donation money from a woman in Pattaya earlier this month. The burglar broke into the woman’s room through her front window and stole 1,000 baht that she had planned to donate to a local temple.

In another Pattaya burglary incident last month, a thief snatched money from a donation tree at a noodle restaurant. CCTV caught the thief breaking through a thin wall of the restaurant at night, before grabbing the cash from the donation tree worth 2,000 baht. For some reason, the thief left a 20-baht banknote on the tree. The restaurant owner said that from CCTV footage, it looked as though the thief wanted to change his mind for a moment, but “his conscience eventually failed him.”

SOURCE: Pattaya Mail