SOURCE: Pattaya People: February 23rd 2007

Suspect Hotel Thief Apprehended

On the 21st of February at 11.00pm Pattaya Police were called to investigate a robbery at Dariga Lodge Hotel on Soi Diana Inn.

Police and Scientific Crime Detection Officers went to the scene and found Mr. William Handle, aged 38, from England, who took Police to his room.

He told Police that the stolen items were a brand named perfume and a rather expensive Casio wristwatch.

Mr. Handle further told Police that earlier in the evening he went out for dinner and returned to his hotel around 9.00pm to find his valuables were missing.

After questioning hotel staff, Police where informed that one of the residents of the hotel had been spotted acting suspiciously with a shoulder bag.

A motorbike taxi rider whose rank is situated immediately outside the Hotel explained to Police that he had taken the suspicious looking individual from the Hotel to a restaurant in Soi Bangkok, Central Pattaya. Police drove to the location and spotted the Thai who made a run for it, however he was soon apprehended.

Police searched inside his shoulder bag to find car and room keys, a small Buddhist pendant, credit cards, powder of sleeping pills, 2 tablets of yaba, 44,470 Baht and foreign currency valued at 100,000 Baht.

The suspect was taken to Pattaya Police Station where he was identified as Grongan Toombenja, aged 24. He stated to Police that he did not steal any property and the money he had on him was a loan from someone. However, when Police questioned about the foreign currency he could not give an accurate answer.

SOURCE: Pattaya People: February 23rd 2007

Suspect Hotel Thief Apprehended

On the 21st of February at 11.00pm Pattaya Police were called to investigate a robbery at Dariga Lodge Hotel on Soi Diana Inn.

Police and Scientific Crime Detection Officers went to the scene and found Mr. William Handle, aged 38, from England, who took Police to his room.

He told Police that the stolen items were a brand named perfume and a rather expensive Casio wristwatch.

Mr. Handle further told Police that earlier in the evening he went out for dinner and returned to his hotel around 9.00pm to find his valuables were missing.

After questioning hotel staff, Police where informed that one of the residents of the hotel had been spotted acting suspiciously with a shoulder bag.

A motorbike taxi rider whose rank is situated immediately outside the Hotel explained to Police that he had taken the suspicious looking individual from the Hotel to a restaurant in Soi Bangkok, Central Pattaya. Police drove to the location and spotted the Thai who made a run for it, however he was soon apprehended.

Police searched inside his shoulder bag to find car and room keys, a small Buddhist pendant, credit cards, powder of sleeping pills, 2 tablets of yaba, 44,470 Baht and foreign currency valued at 100,000 Baht.

The suspect was taken to Pattaya Police Station where he was identified as Grongan Toombenja, aged 24. He stated to Police that he did not steal any property and the money he had on him was a loan from someone. However, when Police questioned about the foreign currency he could not give an accurate answer.

Quite a wad of dosh...guess he was well at it!....Well done the Police for catching him so quickly.

expensive Casio watch???

expensive Casio watch???

Maybe it was the Casio GPS Pathfinder Watch priced at U.S.$499 ?

The victim with a name like Willy Handle was fortunate that he wasn't mixed up in a ladyboy drugging story.........