New Banglamung police chief’s crackdown on bag-snatch robberies paying off

 

PATTAYA:--Banglamung police closed the first two of a rash of snatch-and-run robberies after the district’s new police chief created a task force to stem the rising tide of crime.

 

More than a half-dozen purse and jewelry snatches have been publicly reported since Nov. 17 but both of the arrests announced by Pol. Col. Pattanachai Pamornpiboon Jan. 7 were not reported by the media, indicating the petty crime problem is even more severe than thought.

 

Saksit Theppichai, 22, and his girlfriend Supranee Saardnet, 21, were charged with conspiracy to commit theft using a motorized vehicle. Officers seized Saksit’s gray Honda Scoopy, which was used in the Dec. 6 robbery of a Russian woman on Naklua Soi 14.

 

The police chief said the pair drove by and snatched the woman’s 60,000-baht designer purse with 600 baht inside.

 

Also arrested was Pansakorn Jitarsa, 18, who was charged similarly with robbing a Chinese tourist on Jan. 3, getting away with a handbag containing 10,400 Chinese yuan, 2,000 baht and a Huawei smartphone. Police recovered 3,882 of the yuan and the phone and seized the Honda PCX 150 used in the crime.

 

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-- PATTAYA MAIL 2020-01-10—

4 hours ago, Rimmer said:

pair drove by and snatched the woman’s 60,000-baht designer purse with 600 baht inside.

 

And funny as it sounds, took the cash and dumped the bag!

i wonder if it really happens so often ?

 

 

If they took wallet-snatchers off the bandit blocks on Sukhumvit and deployed them to do proper police work, they'd catch more bag-snatchers.