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  • Crime NewsThe bold brew: Audacious coffee thief meets his downfall in Chon Buri
    TopFriday, July 14, 2023
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    The bold brew: Audacious coffee thief meets his downfall in Chon Buri

    The brewing aroma of coffee and a dash of audacity led to a brazen coffee thief’s downfall in Sri Racha, Chon Buri province. Ruengrit Chinpracha pilfered artisanal coffee-making equipment from a local café and set about selling his ill-gotten loot on social media. However, swift investigation and resourceful digital sleuthing by local law enforcement led to the 22 year old’s arrest…

  • Crime NewsLao national busted in Thailand after 1.8 million baht gold shop heist
    Mitch ConnorSaturday, June 10, 2023
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    Lao national busted in Thailand after 1.8 million baht gold shop heist

    Thai police have busted another robber. A Lao national accused of stealing gold worth approximately 1.8 million baht from his home country was apprehended at a luxury condominium in the Mueang district in Khon Kaen province. The suspect, 27 year old Thao Sirasorn, was arrested in the condominium’s car park on Friday evening. Authorities seized eight gold necklaces, each weighing…

  • Pattaya NewsPitfall pursuit: Officer narrowly escapes injury while chasing wire thief in Pattaya
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    Pitfall pursuit: Officer narrowly escapes injury while chasing wire thief in Pattaya

    An officer from Pattaya City’s municipality experienced a close call while attempting to apprehend a wire thief in the early hours of the morning. The officer, Wittaya Sodavichit, fell into a five-meter-deep pit concealed by tall grass during the pursuit but fortunately did not sustain any injuries. The incident occurred at the Chaiyapruek Sports Stadium, where Wittaya was providing help…

  • Crime NewsCops bust ladyboy thief on Pattaya Beach, suspect found to be a repeat offender
    Tara AbhasakunThursday, June 1, 2023
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    Cops bust ladyboy thief on Pattaya Beach, suspect found to be a repeat offender

    A long-time issue has once again resurfaced in Pattaya. A ladyboy on Pattaya Beach with a reputation for being a ‘bad girl’ was apprehended for stealing money from tourists on the beach. The individual had been arrested previously. Tourist police busted her again on the beach last night. Lt. Col. Pitchaya revealed that the suspect, Bunyawin, nicknamed ‘Frame,’ was a…

  • Thailand NewsBicycle thief interacts with kind owner who eventually lets him keep it (video)
    Samantha RoseSaturday, May 6, 2023
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    Bicycle thief interacts with kind owner who eventually lets him keep it (video)

    A heartwarming video of a Thai woman confronting a bicycle thief has gone viral on social media, garnering nearly a million views. Posted by Tiktok user tai_1138, the clip shows the woman speaking to a man who had stolen her bicycle in a gentle and compassionate manner. @tai_1138♬ เสียงต้นฉบับ – กระต่าย 🐰สายแว๊บ🤭 In the video, she asks the thief where…

  • Northern Thailand NewsThai man fatally electrocuted trying to steal electrical cable in Khon Kaen
    Petch PetpailinWednesday, April 5, 2023
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    Thai man fatally electrocuted trying to steal electrical cable in Khon Kaen

    The dead body of a Thai man was found wedged in a small crevice beneath a commercial building on Lang Mueang Road in the Isaan province of Khon Kaen on Monday. According to reports, the man was attempting to steal the electrical cable and was fatally electrocuted during the act. Residents living near a commercial building notified Mueang Khon Kaen…

  • Thailand NewsPattaya Police on the hunt for thief who stole 30,000 baht from Darul Ibadah Mosque
    Bob ScottWednesday, April 5, 2023
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    Pattaya Police on the hunt for thief who stole 30,000 baht from Darul Ibadah Mosque

    Pattaya Police are hunting a light-fingered Thai thief who robbed Darul Ibadah Mosque on Pattaya Central Road of 30,000 baht. At 2.25am on Sunday, April 2, the thief stole 30,000 baht from two donation boxes and took a third box with him, in addition to causing 10,000 baht in damage, reported Pattaya Mail. Mosque executives, Thawat Ratchaneekorn, Na Ayutthaya, and…

  • Crime NewsPhuket thief nabs German tourist’s mobile phone
    Tara AbhasakunFriday, March 17, 2023
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    Phuket thief nabs German tourist’s mobile phone

    There’s been another theft against a tourist in Thailand, this time in Phuket. A Phuket thief nabbed a German tourist’s mobile phone yesterday morning. The thief snatched the victim’s mobile phone on Soi Cherng Talay. The victim was a 56 year old German man named Haugg Fred. After receiving a report at about 9.50am, Cherng Talay Police arrived on the…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket police can’t catch foreigner stealing tourists’ credit cards for shopping sprees
    leahMonday, February 13, 2023
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    Phuket police can’t catch foreigner stealing tourists’ credit cards for shopping sprees

    A foreign man has made a habit of stealing credit cards from tourists in Phuket, southern Thailand, to go on expensive shopping sprees. He has managed to avoid arrest so far. The same foreign man of unknown nationality is pickpocketing tourists in the Patong area of Phuket and using fake passports to make purchases of expensive items in bulk like…

  • Crime NewsThief leaves an apology note in Chiang Mai, Thailand
    leahTuesday, January 24, 2023
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    Thief leaves an apology note in Chiang Mai, Thailand

    A thief stole over 12,000 baht from an electrical appliances store in Chiang Mai province in northern Thailand on Sunday morning and left behind a note apologising for his crime. CCTV footage captures a masked assailant, a man estimated to be around 30 years old, breaking into an electrical appliance store next to Wat Tha Mai-i Temple in Chiang Mai’s…

  • Crime NewsBangkok delivery driver nabbed robbing cars on the side
    Neill FrondeTuesday, January 24, 2023
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    Bangkok delivery driver nabbed robbing cars on the side

    A motorbike delivery driver in Bangkok was busted after police tracked him down and revealed him as a serial thief. The investigation started after a woman reported her car had been burgled earlier in the month. On January 13, a saleswoman named Saowalak reported a break-in of her car. It had been parked outside of the temple of Wat Traimit…

  • Phuket NewsCops bust thieving couple who sold items to second hand shops in Phuket
    Tara AbhasakunWednesday, January 11, 2023
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    Cops bust thieving couple who sold items to second hand shops in Phuket

    Cops busted a thieving couple in Phuket on Monday, a husband and wife team who stole items and sold them to second hand shops. Police say the husband has been identified as Banjerd, and the wife as Toon Mathurasorn, The Phuket News reported. A Russian man, Oliver Thurman, alerted Wichit Police on January 6 that a towing rig and a…

  • Thailand NewsThe Brahma statue thief who wants to paint the world blue
    Petch PetpailinFriday, October 21, 2022
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    The Brahma statue thief who wants to paint the world blue

    A thief with mental health problems stole a Brahma statue from a shrine at a school, in the Cha-am district of Phetchaburi province in the west of Thailand, painted it blue, before returning it to where he stole it from. Why? His favourite colour is blue. A teacher, Nu-sajee Kornrawee, posted CCTV footage and pictures of a thief on Facebook…

  • Crime NewsSuspected thief electrocuted to death in Bangkok, Thailand
    leahMonday, September 5, 2022
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    Suspected thief electrocuted to death in Bangkok, Thailand

    A Thai man was electrocuted to death in a suspected robbery sometime before 5am this morning on the side of a hotel in Bangkok. The hotel said they turn on electric wires during the night to prevent robberies. Lumphini Police Station received a report at 8am that a suspected thief had been electrocuted to death on the side of a…

  • Pattaya NewsThief caught after showing off on TikTok the money he “earned”
    Neill FrondeSunday, August 14, 2022
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    Thief caught after showing off on TikTok the money he “earned”

    One common lesson that seems to need to be learned and relearned frequently in the age of sharing your life on social media is: if you’re doing crimes, maybe don’t post about it online. Police in Chon Buri arrested a man in Chon Buri after he posted a video on TikTok waving fistfuls of cash and bragging about earning so…

  • Crime NewsKarma in Kalasin: Man steals drain cover then drives his car into the hole
    leahWednesday, May 18, 2022
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    Karma in Kalasin: Man steals drain cover then drives his car into the hole

    A thief from Kalasin province in northeast Thailand got a taste of his own medicine today after he stole a drain cover and proceeded to drive his pickup truck into the open hole. He was forced to request help from municipality officers, who instantly recognised him as the thief from CCTV footage, detained him and handed him over to the…

  • Bangkok NewsWoman stole 59b of food, stabbed Mini Big-C staff to escape
    Neill FrondeSaturday, January 15, 2022
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    Woman stole 59b of food, stabbed Mini Big-C staff to escape

    A woman was caught when she stole 59 baht worth of snack items at a Mini Big C in Nontha Buri, but things escalated quickly when she stabbed the employee that caught her to make her escape. The sad story took place on December 29, but after a warrant was issued for her arrest, police just managed to track the…

  • Phuket NewsAlleged cable thief busted in Phuket, accomplice possibly still at large
    Jack ConnorWednesday, September 22, 2021
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    Alleged cable thief busted in Phuket, accomplice possibly still at large

    A Phuket man was arrested recently after he allegedly stole telephone and communications cables throughout the island. The man allegedly sold the cables for scrap near his house in Phang Nga. Wichit police and members of the Crime Suppression Region 5 and officials from the TOT company showed up at Chaturong Bhumlamnao’s house to arrest him. The TOT had previously…

  • Thailand NewsMonkey sneaks into Lop Buri home and steals food from the refrigerator – VIDEO
    Nisha SethiThursday, July 22, 2021
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    Monkey sneaks into Lop Buri home and steals food from the refrigerator – VIDEO

    A monkey was caught sneaking into a home in Thailand’s Lop Buri province and stealing food from the refrigerator. Earlier this week, 59 year old Phimonthip Rungphant walked into her kitchen and found the monkey walking around the room eating her food. She says she had been wondering why her food seemed to be disappearing. Lop Buri is known for…

  • Pattaya NewsElderly Chon Buri woman sets house on fire to thwart thieves
    Neill FrondeThursday, May 20, 2021
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    Elderly Chon Buri woman sets house on fire to thwart thieves

    If an intruder breaks into your house, you have some options of how to react, but an old woman in Chon Buri discovered that maybe you shouldn’t respond by setting your house on fire. The old woman heard thieves trying to break into her house in the Hua Tanot sub-district of Panat Nikhom. She lives alone, and when she heard…

  • Crime NewsPolice search for “ninja thief” in Nonthaburi neighbourhood
    Caitlin AshworthMonday, February 15, 2021
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    Police search for “ninja thief” in Nonthaburi neighbourhood

    Police are searching for a suspect who many are calling a “ninja thief” after a series of robberies in a neighbourhood in Nonthaburi, just outside Bangkok, where a robber entered the homes through top floor windows. Residents have put up posters in the neighbourhood with an image of a ninja, warning others about the robberies. So far, 10 robberies were…

  • Crime NewsThief makes off with over 500,000 baht in Bangkok bank robbery
    Maya TaylorThursday, November 26, 2020
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    Thief makes off with over 500,000 baht in Bangkok bank robbery

    A man who robbed a Bangkok branch of the Government Housing Bank at gunpoint has escaped with over 500,000 baht. Nation Thailand report that the robbery took place yesterday afternoon, at the bank’s Bangbon branch on Soi Ekachai 86 in the capital. A security guard at the branch told police that the thief jumped over the counter, before grabbing the…

  • Pattaya NewsPolice hunt armed man who robbed Chon Buri store of 200,000 baht worth of gold
    Maya TaylorWednesday, November 25, 2020
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    Police hunt armed man who robbed Chon Buri store of 200,000 baht worth of gold

    Police in the city of Laem Chabang, the shipping port in the eastern province of Chon Buri, are hunting a suspect described as “armed and dangerous” following a robbery at a department store. Employees of the ‘Golden 99’ store were threatened at gunpoint before the man made off with gold valued at 200,000 baht. The 3 staff members were left…

  • Crime NewsBank robber arrested after CCTV captures him counting money metres from the scene
    Maya TaylorSaturday, November 14, 2020
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    Bank robber arrested after CCTV captures him counting money metres from the scene

    A man accused of robbing a branch of the Thai Military Bank in Bangkok has been arrested after CCTV showed him counting the money just 300 metres from the scene of the crime. The Pattaya News reports that 35 year old Kanchanok Srisawat is accused of robbing 416,000 baht from the bank in the Vacharaphon area of the capital on…

  • Phuket NewsMan arrested for stealing Phuket ambulance
    Maya TaylorFriday, July 24, 2020
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    Man arrested for stealing Phuket ambulance

    A man has been arrested in Phang Nga after allegedly stealing an ambulance in Phuket. Reports in Thai Residents and The Phuket News say the vehicle was stolen from outside the Kathu office of The Kusoldharm Foundation at around 4am yesterday and discovered missing by a member of the foundation shortly after. After notifying police, foundation workers initially tried driving…

  • Crime NewsArmed thief breaks into Pattaya toy shop – VIDEO
    ThaigerSaturday, May 23, 2020
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    Armed thief breaks into Pattaya toy shop – VIDEO

    Pattaya Police are searching for a thief who was seen on security footage driving a motorbike with a sidecar, who broke into a toy shop. They believe the man was carrying a firearm. 26 year old Saifon Tanawong, a staff member at the shop, told police and The Pattaya News that at 2:30am the thief stole a computer tablet valued…

  • Crime NewsForeigner handing out cash in Pattaya robbed of more than 10,000 baht – VIDEO
    ThaigerSaturday, May 23, 2020
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    Foreigner handing out cash in Pattaya robbed of more than 10,000 baht – VIDEO

    A thief who snatched a bundle of 1,000 baht notes from a foreigner handing out cash to desperate people in Pattaya has been caught on video, according to an eyewitness at the scene. Musician Pom Santana said the clip, posted on his Facebook page, captures the aftermath of the incident at Jomtien beach, as people queuing for the cash handout look…

  • Crime NewsKnicker-sniffing panty thief arrested in Chiang Mai – VIDEO
    ThaigerSaturday, April 25, 2020
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    Knicker-sniffing panty thief arrested in Chiang Mai – VIDEO

    After receiving complaints, police in Chiang Mai have arrested a food delivery driver for stealing women’s knickers (panties) while making deliveries throughout the city. 27 year old Nontawat Intanachan was arrested after at least one woman reported to police that her knickers had frequently been stolen while hanging out to dry. When police examined the surveillance footage, they saw a…

  • Crime NewsPolice catch serial bag and gold snatcher in Pattaya
    ThaigerSaturday, February 1, 2020
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    Police catch serial bag and gold snatcher in Pattaya

    Pattayans and tourists can breathe a little easier with the arrest of a serial gold and bag snatcher who preyed on both Thais and foreign tourists. Pattaya police report that 25 year old “Beer” was arrested Thursday. CCTV helped nab the suspect, who was responsible for many snatch-and-grab thefts in Pattaya. He snatched a gold necklace from a Thai woman on…

  • Crime NewsThief gets away with 50 phones and gold in Bangkok
    ThaigerThursday, October 10, 2019
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    Thief gets away with 50 phones and gold in Bangkok

    PHTOTS: INN News A thief has snatched over 50 smartphones and 76 grams of gold at a phone shop in Bangkok. The incident happened yesterday. INN News reports that the store is off, Bang Kradi Road, south-west of the city centre. The store is part of a small retail complex but there was no one near the store when the…