Thai husband and wife thieves: Airport couple stole iPad left on plane - but location device was their downfall

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Thai husband and wife thieves: Airport couple stole iPad left on plane - but location device was their downfall

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

The chief of Thailand's tourist police and Suvarnabhumi officials gave details at a press conference yesterday following the arrest of a husband and wife for theft at the airport. 

 

The couple were nabbed after a location signal from a stolen iPad led directly to them.

 

On Sunday morning a Thai man called Theerasak reported to the tourist police that he had left his iPad on TG635, a flight from Seoul into Bangkok. 

 

An investigation soon revealed that the iPad had been removed from the aircraft and taken to the THAI building at the airport. The location device further indicated that it was then taken to accommodation in Soi Jorakhee Noi in nearby Bang Sao Thong of Samut Prakarn. 

 

This was the home of Thippapha, 37, and her husband Muan, 29. She is a cleaner responsible for cleaning THAI aircraft employed by an outsource company. He is a belt worker at the airport. 

 

Police soon had Thippapha in custody and she admitted taking it home from the aircraft. But she was unable to get into the iPad because it needed a code.

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

She claimed that she was worried that the GPS tracking on the machine would lead to her so she texted her husband and told him to get rid of it. He tossed it in the area of a canal.

 

Police found the iPad in a plastic bag on the banks of a klong along Thepparak Road. 

 

The couple were charged with stealing from an airport at night. 

 

A picture on 77kaoded showed a man (assumed to be the owner of the iPad) presenting flowers to the chief of the tourist police Pol Lt-Gen Chettha Komonwanthana. 

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

 

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[Genmai]

But, but, but -  

 

[Griffo63]

Huge news item 

[bluesofa]

49 minutes ago, Genmai said:

But, but, but -  

 

I thought the general retired when his guide dog died.

[RichardColeman]

55 minutes ago, Genmai said:

But, but, but -  

 

They were stealing, not conning 

[legend49]

A lovely Thai couple glad I have never met them.

[trainman34014]

They get good jobs for ignorant and uneducated people doing simple things at the Airport and would probably keep their jobs and income for many years to come but they can't keep their sticky fingers off other people's property, so bang goes their jobs and their freedom.......Dumb and Dumber !

Edited January 10, 2020 by trainman34014

[roquefort]

3 hours ago, Griffo63 said:

Huge news item 

Big enough to warrant a huge story board, press conference and photo opportunity. Well done RTP, good to know you're keeping the streets safe.

 

Meanwhile in other news.....................what happened to the nutter who killed 3 people (including a baby) in a shopping mall yesterday?

 

[atyclb]

1 hour ago, legend49 said:

A lovely Thai couple glad I have never met them.

 

seems like they have the skills to work for TSA

[JusticeGB]

Yet the person who shot the car ex chief Immigration Officer  8 times apparently walks free as that crime is not possible to solve. 

[bander]

7 hours ago, Genmai said:

But, but, but -  

 

Does the general suggesting that it's ok to conning foreigners but not the fellow countrymen? I know it's accepted by thais to charge and overprice falangs but never heard a general encouraging this "activity". 

[madmen]

4 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

They get good jobs for ignorant and uneducated people doing simple things at the Airport and would probably keep their jobs and income for many years to come but they can't keep their sticky fingers off other people's property, so bang goes their jobs and their freedom.......Dumb and Dumber !

Its in their DNA they can't help it.

[Scouse123]

6 hours ago, bander said:

Does the general suggesting that it's ok to conning foreigners but not the fellow countrymen? I know it's accepted by thais to charge and overprice falangs but never heard a general encouraging this "activity". 

 

I think it may have been poorly spoken or mistranslated.

 

Even he cannot be that naive and I think he was referring to the romance scams favored by our Nigerian friends rather the criminals scams in general.

[notasmartassknowitallfarag]

5 cops, 1 bunch of flowers, 1 photo opportunity for a found stolen Ipad.  

 

Is that really necessary?

 

I really don’t get this culture of face nonsense.