Australian Businesswoman’s Condo in Pattaya Robbed: Over 3 Million Baht Stolen

[PETERTHEEATER]

On 11/16/2024 at 11:11 PM, henryford1958 said:

Never buy a ground floor condo.

Especially one with a rear glass door which unlocks and opens when shaken.....😋

[FritsSikkink]

On 11/17/2024 at 4:50 AM, save the frogs said:

Attracts thieves, is tiny and light and the easiest and highest value per kg thing and therefore best thing to steal. 

Apart from a bar of gold maybe.

Never heard of diamonds?

[webfact]

UPDATE:

10 year old homeless boy steals 3.5 million baht from Aussien woman in Pattaya

 

 

Police yesterday arrested a 10 year old homeless Thai boy for stealing valuables worth 3.5 million baht from an Australian businesswoman staying in a rented house in Pattaya on Saturday, November 16.

 

The victim, 40 year old Toni Anne Hughes, filed a complaint at Mueang Pattaya Police Station on Saturday, reporting that she left her rented house on Friday, November 15, and returned the following day to find all her valuables missing.

 

Hughes discovered signs of a break-in and noticed that the back door of her house was left open. The stolen valuables included:

 

• Two Cartier rings worth 1 million baht
• A Cartier watch worth 300,000 baht
• A Rolex watch worth 600,000 baht
• Two gold necklaces worth 800,000 baht
• A gold ring worth 45,000 baht
• A pair of gold earrings worth 100,000 baht
• Designer handbags
• Valuable Buddhist amulets
• Other accessories

 

Anne checked CCTV footage and spotted a young boy wearing a T-shirt and shorts, carrying a backpack. Police reviewed the footage and identified the suspect as a 10 year old boy, identified only as A, who was known to them.

 

 

According to the police report, the boy is homeless and usually sleeps on an abandoned plot of land near Nong Or Temple. Officers located him at the site and arrested him with all the stolen items in his backpack. The valuables were returned to the Australian victim.

 

The boy admitted to the theft and was questioned at Mueang Pattaya Police Station before being transferred to a shelter for children and families. He will be questioned again by specialists. Details regarding any legal action were not included in the report.

 

In a related incident earlier this month, three Thai boys stole food from a som tam restaurant in Trat Province. One of them, aged 16, was caught by a good Samaritan.

 

The boy admitted to stealing chicken eggs, peanuts, and snacks because he and his friends had not eaten for four days. He explained that he ran away from home due to family issues and had been living with friends since then.

 

The shop owner, moved by his situation, decided not to press charges and instead provided him with food and drink. The boy expressed his gratitude with tears of thanks.

 

By Petch Petpailin

Photo via ThaiRath

 

Source: The Thaiger

-- 2024-11-18

 

 

 

[save the frogs]

3 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

Never heard of diamonds?

 

I think diamonds are also a stupid thing to buy/own.

 

It's a scam created by some genius evil capitalist for people to spend so much money on a tiny object that can be easily stolen. 

 

And the value of diamonds is totally artifically created.

 

[john donson]

14? looks like 8-10 ? malnourished?

[jacko45k]

10 hours ago, save the frogs said:

And the value of diamonds is totally artifically created.

Perhaps like bitcoin and all the others, but nevertheless the value is there and diamonds are forever!

[save the frogs]

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

Perhaps like bitcoin and all the others, but nevertheless the value is there and diamonds are forever!

she might keep your diamonds forever, but she wont necessarily stay with YOU forever.

 

[Dave0206]

Ah well lady was very lucky getting her jewellery back lucky for her no one is going to target her from now on knowing the value of her trinkets she keeps

[RichardColeman]

13 hours ago, webfact said:

• Two Cartier rings worth 1 million baht
• A Cartier watch worth 300,000 baht
• A Rolex watch worth 600,000 baht
• Two gold necklaces worth 800,000 baht
• A gold ring worth 45,000 baht
• A pair of gold earrings worth 100,000 baht
• Designer handbags
• Valuable Buddhist amulets
• Other accessories

[hotchilli]

Should keep her stuff in a safer location...

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

she might keep your diamonds forever, but she wont necessarily stay with YOU forever.

 

Like the gold, sold when needed. My current and long term lady sold some I gave her, she never wore it. 

[henryford1958]

19 hours ago, jaideedave said:

Back when I was working I bought a Rolex Submariner because it was on my bucket list. I wore it for 1 year and sold it. It simply created way too much attention here in LOS and abroad while travelling.

Difficult to insure and I didn't have a safe to store while away working.

 

Rolexes are only bought by insecure people trying to prove they are "special". No normal person spends $30,000 on a watch.

Edited Tuesday at 02:01 AM by henryford1958

[cheerz]

16 hours ago, webfact said:

UPDATE:

10 year old homeless boy steals 3.5 million baht from Aussien woman in Pattaya

 

 

Police yesterday arrested a 10 year old homeless Thai boy for stealing valuables worth 3.5 million baht from an Australian businesswoman staying in a rented house in Pattaya on Saturday, November 16.

 

The victim, 40 year old Toni Anne Hughes, filed a complaint at Mueang Pattaya Police Station on Saturday, reporting that she left her rented house on Friday, November 15, and returned the following day to find all her valuables missing.

 

Hughes discovered signs of a break-in and noticed that the back door of her house was left open. The stolen valuables included:

 

• Two Cartier rings worth 1 million baht
• A Cartier watch worth 300,000 baht
• A Rolex watch worth 600,000 baht
• Two gold necklaces worth 800,000 baht
• A gold ring worth 45,000 baht
• A pair of gold earrings worth 100,000 baht
• Designer handbags
• Valuable Buddhist amulets
• Other accessories

 

Anne checked CCTV footage and spotted a young boy wearing a T-shirt and shorts, carrying a backpack. Police reviewed the footage and identified the suspect as a 10 year old boy, identified only as A, who was known to them.

 

 

According to the police report, the boy is homeless and usually sleeps on an abandoned plot of land near Nong Or Temple. Officers located him at the site and arrested him with all the stolen items in his backpack. The valuables were returned to the Australian victim.

 

The boy admitted to the theft and was questioned at Mueang Pattaya Police Station before being transferred to a shelter for children and families. He will be questioned again by specialists. Details regarding any legal action were not included in the report.

 

In a related incident earlier this month, three Thai boys stole food from a som tam restaurant in Trat Province. One of them, aged 16, was caught by a good Samaritan.

 

The boy admitted to stealing chicken eggs, peanuts, and snacks because he and his friends had not eaten for four days. He explained that he ran away from home due to family issues and had been living with friends since then.

 

The shop owner, moved by his situation, decided not to press charges and instead provided him with food and drink. The boy expressed his gratitude with tears of thanks.

 

By Petch Petpailin

Photo via ThaiRath

 

Source: The Thaiger

-- 2024-11-18

 

 

 

 Something wrong with this woman having so many valuable items in her rented house lucky she got em back brainless

 

[FritsSikkink]

14 hours ago, save the frogs said:

 

I think diamonds are also a stupid thing to buy/own.

 

It's a scam created by some genius evil capitalist for people to spend so much money on a tiny object that can be easily stolen. 

 

And the value of diamonds is totally artifically created.

 

Much easier to carry than a block of gold though.

[Scouse123]

So, it looks like the kid is 14 years old, not 10 years old as stated, and he knows his way around in the thieving game!

 

Seriously, what on earth was the woman thinking, leaving that amount of valuables lying around in a condo with the flimsiest of locks as security.

 

She should have left her jewellery in Australia, the same place as she left her brains!

 

The stupidity is mind-boggling.

 

Great idea, let's take 3.5 million baht worth of jewellery to Thailand, which has rampant poverty, and leave it on bedside tables and drawers, In an unsecure condo, without even a safety box, on the ground floor.

 

What could possibly go wrong?

[jaideedave]

2 hours ago, henryford1958 said:

 

Rolexes are only bought by insecure people trying to prove they are "special". No normal person spends $30,000 on a watch.

555, no I didn't think I was "special" at all. I only spent $12 k for the watch in 2009 which was 1/3 of my monthly salary at the time.

I also owned a Corvette in 1972, but I walked for 3 years to save up the down payment. Not special by any stretch.

[Scouse123]

22 hours ago, jaideedave said:

Back when I was working I bought a Rolex Submariner because it was on my bucket list. I wore it for 1 year and sold it. It simply created way too much attention here in LOS and abroad while travelling.

Difficult to insure and I didn't have a safe to store while away working.

 

 

I got rid of a black faced submariner early last year, It had sat in a safe for years!

 

I got 9,500 GBP for it, and I am glad I sold it.

 

That, coupled with the fact it costs 800 GBP just to get it serviced, I let it go and sold it when I was in the UK.

 

With the sale and profit, I put in a new, non-slip tiled driveway in the house in Thailand, I also bought Madam a new motorbike and got her a 10-year visa for the UK, and I got my eyes lasered.

 

I now wear a Black pulsar which cost me 50 GBP!! 

 

It still tells the time, looks OK, and I wouldn't be too upset if it got stolen from a hotel room on one of my mini breaks in Cambodia!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 04:53 AM by Scouse123

[bbi1]

Condo security must be very weak. Doesn't her luxury condo require scanning of a keycard to get to her floor, as most condos will have this and it only goes to your floor only? What about security cameras of the condos? And it should be impossible to get in via the balconies too as you can't climb up them.

 

Doesn't she lock her valuables in a bolted down safe in her room? Or have cameras inside her condo to record things and view a live feed when she's out of the room? Seems like common sense but not many people have it these days.

[Stargeezr]

What country is an aussian. I do see the head line says Australian, and that is what I think should have been used in the story.

Just my Canadian observation. I do not like being called a Canuck.

[KannikaP]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

UPDATE:

10 year old homeless boy steals 3.5 million baht from Aussien woman in Pattaya

 

 

Police yesterday arrested a 10 year old homeless Thai boy for stealing valuables worth 3.5 million baht from an Australian businesswoman staying in a rented house in Pattaya on Saturday, November 16.

 

The victim, 40 year old Toni Anne Hughes, filed a complaint at Mueang Pattaya Police Station on Saturday, reporting that she left her rented house on Friday, November 15, and returned the following day to find all her valuables missing.

 

Hughes discovered signs of a break-in and noticed that the back door of her house was left open. The stolen valuables included:

 

• Two Cartier rings worth 1 million baht
• A Cartier watch worth 300,000 baht
• A Rolex watch worth 600,000 baht
• Two gold necklaces worth 800,000 baht
• A gold ring worth 45,000 baht
• A pair of gold earrings worth 100,000 baht
• Designer handbags
• Valuable Buddhist amulets
• Other accessories

 

Anne checked CCTV footage and spotted a young boy wearing a T-shirt and shorts, carrying a backpack. Police reviewed the footage and identified the suspect as a 10 year old boy, identified only as A, who was known to them.

 

 

According to the police report, the boy is homeless and usually sleeps on an abandoned plot of land near Nong Or Temple. Officers located him at the site and arrested him with all the stolen items in his backpack. The valuables were returned to the Australian victim.

 

The boy admitted to the theft and was questioned at Mueang Pattaya Police Station before being transferred to a shelter for children and families. He will be questioned again by specialists. Details regarding any legal action were not included in the report.

 

In a related incident earlier this month, three Thai boys stole food from a som tam restaurant in Trat Province. One of them, aged 16, was caught by a good Samaritan.

 

The boy admitted to stealing chicken eggs, peanuts, and snacks because he and his friends had not eaten for four days. He explained that he ran away from home due to family issues and had been living with friends since then.

 

The shop owner, moved by his situation, decided not to press charges and instead provided him with food and drink. The boy expressed his gratitude with tears of thanks.

 

By Petch Petpailin

Photo via ThaiRath

 

Source: The Thaiger

-- 2024-11-18

 

 

 

UPDATE
14 Year Old Burglar Arrested for Australian Condo Heist in Pattaya

[BigStar]

On 11/17/2024 at 6:25 AM, quake said:

inside job.

 

But has CSI: ANF now concluded it wasn't? Now, after thorough investigation, we've concluded the Australian businesswoman was stupid.

[quake]

1 minute ago, BigStar said:

 

But has CSI: ANF now concluded it wasn't? Now, after thorough investigation, we've concluded the Australian businesswoman was stupid.

 

Yes, 

I was waiting for the security guard to be arrested. 

[Mr Meeseeks]

On 11/17/2024 at 1:22 PM, Georgealbert said:

During questioning, the suspect admitted to the crime and pleaded with Ms. Annie not to press charges, claiming he has autism.

 

Nonsense. Don't fall for their lies and excuses.

 

Press full charges,