Car Theft Gangs Use New Trick - Employing Women To Drug Drivers: Thai Police

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CRIMES

New twist in car theft, use a sleeping pill

By Suparat Iamtal

The Nation

Car theft gangs have devised a new trick - employing women to drug drivers in remote motels while the men make off with their chartered sedans and vans.

The Metropolitan Police's anti-theft centre has reported the carjack rings start by chartering vehicles for short trips. They choose the models and variants that match the orders of their customers. The women will get acquainted with the drivers before the vehicle is chartered for a distant location.

The women will sneakily put sleeping pills in the drivers' food or drinks while in a motel room. When the drivers fall asleep, the men take the vehicles and they and the women flee together.

According to www.rodhai.com, this technique is practical as it is non-lethal and the yield is high, compared to the old seek-and-steal method - roaming the streets to find vehicles wanted by customers.

Other techniques - renting vehicles and reselling them to unwitting clients, or pawning them at gambling dens - do not work anymore following a recent crackdown and car buyers' awareness of the practice.

The rackets also register the stolen cars using the registration details of totalled vehicles or rely on the invalid registration details of other types to hide their identities.

They also attach fake licence plates before selling stolen vehicles to willing or unwitting buyers, who will face arrest or legal action when confronted by the former owners.

The syndicates do not only deal in cars, but also smuggle in parts of luxury cars or motorcycle models with high excise tax rates. The "ghost vehicles" are reassembled, usually with the help of agreeable garages, before they are sold to knowing buyers at large profits from the tax-free prices.

Crude methods and brute force are in vogue, like taking cars or motorcycles from victims on sight or scratching targeted vehicles to make them stop, and robbing them immediately at gun or knife point.

On other occasions, the villains break into homes with luxury cars and drive them away, or come back the next night after snatching the keys or making skeleton keys from moulds of the cars' ignition sockets.

-- The Nation 2011-06-15

[Mosha]

She told me it was viagra

[jaltsc]

She told me it was viagra

No...she said "I'm going to get you stuck up"

[KeyserSoze01]

Who writes this crap?

Who rents the vehicles?

Where do the women come into play with the renter of the car?

Can't tell <deleted> from shinola the way the article is written.

[Briggsy]

Who writes this crap?

Who rents the vehicles?

Where do the women come into play with the renter of the car?

Can't tell <deleted> from shinola the way the article is written.

The criminals are hiring a car and driver for several days. One of the passengers sleeps with the driver, drugs him and nicks the vehicle.

[Payboy]

One of the passengers sleeps with the driver, drugs him and nicks the vehicle.

Ass For Clunkers?

[manutoo]

The criminals are hiring a car and driver for several days. One of the passengers sleeps with the driver, drugs him and nicks the vehicle.

If so, wouldn't be easier to just hire a car without driver..?