Rassada phone robbers arrested – 31 phones recovered
The two phone shop robbers have been arrested today (April 18) after robbing more than 60 phones.
The phone shop in Rassada named ‘No.1’ was robbed on April 10 by 38 year old Chok-Anan Chaisongkram and his brother-in-law, Leng Permthong. They got in through the ceiling of the shop and removed the server of a CCTV camera. However, one of the CCTV cameras recorded the footage of the two men who robbed the shop at 1.39 am. They wore knitted hats to hide their faces and wore gloves. After the robbery, they fled with a motorcycle to Anupas Phuketkan Road.
Police tracked CCTV cameras along the route they fled to and received information from an undercover officer in the area about the thief.
Police arrested Chok-Anan with 31 mobile phones this morning with 12 money cards for mobile phones in a house nearby the phone shop on Srisutat Road, in Rassada.
He told the police that his brother-in-law invited him to commit the robbery and he has now fled the island. He said that this was his first robbery.
