A sophisticated heist unfolded at a renowned shopping mall in Bangkok’s Pathumwan district yesterday, where thieves made off with a diamond bracelet valued at over 1 million baht. The pair, posing as customers, managed to deceive the staff and conceal the high-value item before fleeing the scene in a waiting taxi.

 

The two criminals orchestrated the brazen theft yesterday, April 16, in the heart of Bangkok.

 

"Foreigners"

 

The suspects, a man and a woman believed to be in their thirties and resembling foreigners, entered a jewellery store and expressed interest in an exquisite yellow-gold diamond bracelet worth approximately 1,040,000 baht (US$28,000).

 

As the employee’s attention was momentarily diverted, the female accomplice discreetly tucked the bracelet up her left sleeve, using a mobile phone to distract the staff further. Subsequently, they swiftly exited the store and escaped in a taxi bearing the license plate 1มค 9327.

The store manager, 39 year old Somtut, was understandably shaken as he recounted the events to the police. Officers, led by Police Lieutenant Colonel Pichai Raksakom of Pathumwan Police Station, arrived promptly with the investigative team and forensic officers to examine the scene.

 

Witnesses provided descriptions of the suspects, noting their casual attire, with both wearing grey T-shirts, the man in black trousers and the woman in black shorts, and both sporting eyeglasses and a black cap, reported KhaoSod.

The meticulous coordination of the crime and the swift getaway sparked suspicions that the taxi driver might be complicit in the operation. The police promptly issued an alert to intercept the vehicle, which was last seen heading towards Don Mueang via the Din Daeng motorway. Unfortunately, the suspects managed to evade capture.

 

In related news, a bold theft occurred yesterday at 7pm when a lone robber seized a 5-baht weight gold necklace valued at over 210,000 baht from the Aurora gold shop located inside a shopping mall in Bang Kaeo, Bang Phli District, Samut Prakan Province.

 

by Nattapong Westwood

Picture courtesy of KhaoSod

 

 

Source: The Thaiger 2024-04-17

 

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Is that girl wearing a Velma Dinkley disguise?

I'm still amazed at how easy it is to steal jewelry from Thai gold shops

So now even "resembling foreigners'  is a potential offence, is it? There seems to be no end of ways they're trying to finger foreigners for Thai crime. Surely, if the thieves definitely were foreigners, it would have been one of the first things used to describe them by the shop staff.

5 minutes ago, MartinL said:

So now even "resembling foreigners'  is a potential offence, is it? There seems to be no end of ways they're trying to finger foreigners for Thai crime. Surely, if the thieves definitely were foreigners, it would have been one of the first things used to describe them by the shop staff.

Foreigners of Asian descent most likely !

58 minutes ago, webfact said:

In related news,

Someone needs to tweak the new algo bot coding, as every-time the AI news bot chucks this at the end of a story the news is not related at all.

12 minutes ago, MartinL said:

So now even "resembling foreigners'  is a potential offence, is it?

Obviously, not.  That is just your bizarrely wrong interpretation of the article.

You'd think that some kind of conversation would have taken place that would have given the staff a clue to the perps not being Thai. not just that they "resembled foreigners ".

Bonnie and Clyde 👍

 

B.S. has been quiet lately. 

 

Maybe he's teamed up with that Juristic woman. 🤔

 

Edited April 17, 20242 yr by SAFETY FIRST

Soon it will be like Singapore with armed guards (Shotgun in hand) standing outside gold merchants. 

 

I wonder how many itchy trigger fingers will 'slip' in the coming years. 

 

In NZ there is a proliferation of kids doing ram raids, not just on convience stores but within malls too.  Why?  Because they know they can get away with it. 

 

If they do get caught they are of the age where they don't go to jail but attend a youth court. Too soft IMHO. 

 

There has to be a deterent or it will continue. 

3 minutes ago, Korat Kiwi said:

Soon it will be like Singapore with armed guards (Shotgun in hand) standing outside gold merchants. 

 

I hope it will not be like in the Philippines with armed guards in every grocery store, let alone gold shops or banks

1 minute ago, JoseThailand said:

 

I hope it will not be like in the Philippines with armed guards in every grocery store, let alone gold shops or banks

Geez I didn't know it had gotten that bad over there. 

Better too write chinese...

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The meticulous coordination of the crime and the swift getaway sparked suspicions that the taxi driver might be complicit in the operation.

Well at least we know he wasn't a foreigner, restricted occupation and all that.

Probably be found  and not reworked as it's not blue'''🤣 

1 hour ago, MartinL said:

So now even "resembling foreigners'  is a potential offence, is it? There seems to be no end of ways they're trying to finger foreigners for Thai crime. Surely, if the thieves definitely were foreigners, it would have been one of the first things used to describe them by the shop staff.

 

The offence was stealing a bracelet, not being foreign.

She sure looks Asian to me. Which makes them either locals or foreigners, but not farangs. 

1 hour ago, mancub said:

You'd think that some kind of conversation would have taken place that would have given the staff a clue to the perps not being Thai. not just that they "resembled foreigners ".

Exactly, surely the staff could figure out by talking to them, if they were Thai, or not!

1 hour ago, MartinL said:

So now even "resembling foreigners'  is a potential offence, is it? There seems to be no end of ways they're trying to finger foreigners for Thai crime. Surely, if the thieves definitely were foreigners, it would have been one of the first things used to describe them by the shop staff.

Exactly, by the grainy picture she resembles an Asian 55555 .you just can't make it up

1 hour ago, MartinL said:

So now even "resembling foreigners'  is a potential offence, is it? There seems to be no end of ways they're trying to finger foreigners for Thai crime. Surely, if the thieves definitely were foreigners, it would have been one of the first things used to describe them by the shop staff.

Easy to see these Thieves are Asian 5555

They are not looking like Westerners. More likely Asians.

Sure, not Thai😂

1 hour ago, mancub said:

Foreigners of Asian descent most likely !

Think So...Arrest them "Bang Kwang & Klong Prem Prison"_"Bangkok Hilton" is the right place for them...Just Shameless & low people...Cheat & steal " for what.?  

1 hour ago, MartinL said:

So now even "resembling foreigners'  is a potential offence, is it? There seems to be no end of ways they're trying to finger foreigners for Thai crime. Surely, if the thieves definitely were foreigners, it would have been one of the first things used to describe them by the shop staff.

foreigners , if from Europe or the west, are defined by their probable country of origin, if chinese or likely chinese  they are resembling foreigners or simply foreigners. By order of his excellency the embassador of the evil empire.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

A sophisticated heist unfolded at a renowned shopping mall in Bangkok’s Pathumwan district yesterday, where thieves made off with a diamond bracelet valued at over 1 million baht.

Brazen?, yes. Bold?, sure. Sophisticated? Not so much.. unless shoplifting is 'sophisticated' in the eyes of the writer, of course.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The suspects, a man and a woman believed to be in their thirties and resembling foreigners,

Surely their accents would give them away. Unless.....

2 hours ago, MartinL said:

So now even "resembling foreigners'  is a potential offence, is it? There seems to be no end of ways they're trying to finger foreigners for Thai crime. Surely, if the thieves definitely were foreigners, it would have been one of the first things used to describe them by the shop staff.

Hard to fathom how you get here. "Resembling foreigners" is not a crime; stealing is. Thin skin much?

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The meticulous coordination of the crime and the swift getaway sparked suspicions ...

 

...  that the culprits were foreigners .

 

 

Edited April 17, 20242 yr by nobodysfriend

Taxi driver obviously involved.

 

Finding one aint so easy and I can't imagine one who'll wait while you dash in to pick something up.

Hopefully these foreigners had a workpermit for this kind of job, otherwise they could face some problems.

I would like to offer my services as a security consultant, 

Black cap

Sunglasses

Taxi waiting