Phuket Adventure Ends Badly for Bag-Snatching Aussies

[snoop1130]

Photo via Facebook/ เหยี่ยวข่าว ภูเก็ต Newshawk Phuket

 

In a swift turn of events, Phuket police have arrested an Australian couple suspected of snatching bags from tourists in the popular Rawai area. The incidents took place last Wednesday, 19th February, prompting swift action by local law enforcement.

 

The first victim, a foreign tourist, reported her bag was snatched while she stood outside a convenience store on Soi Samakkhi 4, around 9.30pm on Tuesday, 21st February. Her belongings, including a mobile phone and personal documents, were taken as two thieves sped away on a motorcycle.

 

A similar theft occurred just an hour later; this time, a different tourist fell victim outside a massage shop near Rawai Beach. Here too, a mobile phone was the target.

 

 

Upon reviewing CCTV footage, police identified the getaway vehicle as a white and red Honda PCX, rented by 25-year-old Sam, a visiting Australian. Further investigations led officers to Sam and his 36-year-old girlfriend, Susan, both identified as the perpetrators. A raid on their accommodation today yielded vital evidence, including the motorcycle and the clothing worn during the crimes.

 

Charged under Section 336 of the Criminal Law, the couple now faces serious consequences for the thefts, with penalties including up to five years' imprisonment and a significant fine. Utilising a motorcycle in the commission of the crimes could see their sentence enhanced.

 

This incident has sparked heightened vigilance among tourists and local officials, underlining the need for stringent policing in tourist hotspots, reported The Thaiger.

 

-- 2025-02-21

 

 

[Owiee]

Lock them up for life!

[SAFETY FIRST]

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Australian couple suspected of snatching bags from tourists

I've read some stupid stuff lately but this takes the biscuit. 

 

Idiots. 

 

[AloisAmrein]

Excellent work of the Thai police. Give them 5 years holidays in Bangkok Hilton.

[john11k]

Lock them up , never to get a visa again. 
must have ran outa holiday money. ! 

[roo860]

Obviously not their first rodeo, thought they could branch out and go International,  should have stayed in Australia. 

[save the frogs]

5 years for snatching a couple of iphones seems rather harsh. 

and what does the motorcycle have to do with anything? 

[willip]

It's bad enough being robbed by ladyboys on motorcycles!. Let alone by farrang  they deserve to suffer thai justice, without interference from the west. An example to be set here. 

[flyingtlger]

What a dumb a$$ with his cougar GF.

Not the sharpest knives in the drawer.....

[Tailwagsdog]

Thailand has a trash problem ...and it's getting worse. Please take out the garbage.

[soalbundy]

19 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

5 years for snatching a couple of iphones seems rather harsh. 

and what does the motorcycle have to do with anything? 

These low lifes need to be taught a lesson, bag snatching falang....that really is letting the side down.

[save the frogs]

Just now, soalbundy said:

These low lifes need to be taught a lesson, bag snatching falang....that really is letting the side down.

yeah so because it was on a falang?

5 years is harsh, man. 

 

[Tarteso]

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

up to five years' imprisonment and a significant fine

Nice 👍

[newbee2022]

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Photo via Facebook/ เหยี่ยวข่าว ภูเก็ต Newshawk Phuket

 

In a swift turn of events, Phuket police have arrested an Australian couple suspected of snatching bags from tourists in the popular Rawai area. The incidents took place last Wednesday, 19th February, prompting swift action by local law enforcement.

 

The first victim, a foreign tourist, reported her bag was snatched while she stood outside a convenience store on Soi Samakkhi 4, around 9.30pm on Tuesday, 21st February. Her belongings, including a mobile phone and personal documents, were taken as two thieves sped away on a motorcycle.

 

A similar theft occurred just an hour later; this time, a different tourist fell victim outside a massage shop near Rawai Beach. Here too, a mobile phone was the target.

 

 

 

Upon reviewing CCTV footage, police identified the getaway vehicle as a white and red Honda PCX, rented by 25-year-old Sam, a visiting Australian. Further investigations led officers to Sam and his 36-year-old girlfriend, Susan, both identified as the perpetrators. A raid on their accommodation today yielded vital evidence, including the motorcycle and the clothing worn during the crimes.

 

Charged under Section 336 of the Criminal Law, the couple now faces serious consequences for the thefts, with penalties including up to five years' imprisonment and a significant fine. Utilising a motorcycle in the commission of the crimes could see their sentence enhanced.

 

This incident has sparked heightened vigilance among tourists and local officials, underlining the need for stringent policing in tourist hotspots, reported The Thaiger.

 

-- 2025-02-21

 

 

lovely couple. Back home, life time ban, please 

🙏

[soalbundy]

Just now, save the frogs said:

yeah so because it was on a falang?

5 years is harsh, man. 

 

No, because the perpetrators were falang from a wealthy western nation blatantly Committing  low life crimes in an Asian country, it doesn't matter what was stolen, theft is theft. Can you imagine the despair the victims must have felt, possibly losing not only money and phones but also passports as well.

[danfoss5000]

Australia is exporting their convicts back to the rest of the world now? 

[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Charged under Section 336 of the Criminal Law, the couple now faces serious consequences for the thefts, with penalties including up to five years' imprisonment and a significant fine

Scum

[Woke to Sounds]

Typical begpackers - Aussies no less.

 

That said I'd throw it into the cougar for a few rounds.

 

Fine, deport and lifetime ban.

 

Thailand not fed up with the riff raff yet?

[loong]

1 hour ago, AloisAmrein said:

Excellent work of the Thai police. Give them 5 years holidays in Bangkok Hilton.

 

Why lock up the police?

[Iron Tongue]

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

5 years for snatching a couple of iphones seems rather harsh. 

and what does the motorcycle have to do with anything? 

A motorcycle can be considered using a deadly weapon during the commission of a crime.  This changes it from a robbery to an armed robbery.

And before you blather about it being "harsh", people have received life-changing injuries and even been killed when struck & dragged by motorcycles.

As for the Thais, since tourism is a main source of their revenues, they don't really want to get a reputation for violent crime.  They want happy, sunburnt tourists willing to be overcharged for their visit.

[Zack61]

Off with their hands

[save the frogs]

3 minutes ago, Iron Tongue said:

And before you blather about it being "harsh", people have received life-changing injuries and even been killed when struck & dragged by motorcycles.

but they were not in this instance.

and that's a more severe form of robbery if it causes injury.

but i'm not a lawyer so I dont know what a fair sentence would be. 

[Kwausie]

Both in the big house for a few months and deported with a ban for life so it will be a holiday they will never forget.

[SHA 2 BKK]

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

5 years for snatching a couple of iphones seems rather harsh. 

and what does the motorcycle have to do with anything? 

 

Ha that's nothing - we used to get sent to Australia for life for stealing a handkerchief or a loaf a bread.  

[Thingamabob]

Their appalling behaviour does none of us foreigners any good. 

[ronster]

At least they done it in daytime ! 😂

[bkk6060]

Total scum thieves.

[thesetat]

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

yeah so because it was on a falang?

5 years is harsh, man. 

 

ONe iphone is valued at over 1000 USD. A felony charge. You know if they plead guilty they will have their sentence halved. So 2 .5 years behind bars is not that severe. 

They were idiots, stealing using a bike rented under their name. I mean really, that goes beyond stupidity. They should get 2 years just for being so stupid 

[Harrisfan]

4 minutes ago, thesetat said:

ONe iphone is valued at over 1000 USD. A felony charge. You know if they plead guilty they will have their sentence halved. So 2 .5 years behind bars is not that severe. 

They were idiots, stealing using a bike rented under their name. I mean really, that goes beyond stupidity. They should get 2 years just for being so stupid 

3 months in Thai Jail would be bad. 

[flexomike]

2 hours ago, save the frogs said:

5 years for snatching a couple of iphones seems rather harsh. 

and what does the motorcycle have to do with anything? 

up too five years, read the article