Phuket camera grabbers quickly caught
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Smile! Rosemary Kaberra gets her stolen camera back.

PHUKET: -- Swift action by Karon police resulted in the arrest of two teenage snatch-and-run artists and the return of the expensive Nikon camera they had grabbed from a Brazilian tourist less than 48 hours earlier.

Rosemary Maria Kaberra reported on Monday (September 16) that she had been walking along Soi Kaetkwan in Karon at about 2 am when the duo came alongside on a motorbike and snatched the camera from her shoulder.

She was unable to give police the make or number of the bike, so they checked security cameras around the area.

Just over a day later, acting on what they saw in the camera footage, officers arrested a 22-year-old Thai man, Kanin Kongchana and a Burmese teenager who cannot be named because he is under 18 years of age.

They also recovered the stolen camera and seized a Yamaha Fino motorbike used in the robbery.

Both confessed to the theft and were taken to Karon Police Station where they were booked on a charge of robbery while using motorised transport.

Pol Maj Gen Choti Chavalviwat, Commander of Phuket Provincial Police, praised to Karon officers for their swift action.

The camera was returned to the delighted tourist, who also said how impressed she was with the efficiency of the police and how grateful she was to get her Nikon back.

Source: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-camera-grabbers-quickly-caught-41963.php


-- Phuket News 2013-09-18

Well done to the police. Hope we hear many more stories like this in future. Phuket is getting safer.

good on them. Nice to hear about a good outcome from something like this.

when i saw the picture, my first thought "ah this is the thai lady boy who stole the camera!"

Well done to the police. Hope we hear many more stories like this in future. Phuket is getting safer.

I hope that is true, but I seriously doubt it ...

She could be a Thai lady and the whole story is just a PR stunt for the police.

when i saw the picture, my first thought "ah this is the thai lady boy who stole the camera!"

Sick mind mate!

Well done to the police. Hope we hear many more stories like this in future. Phuket is getting safer.

I think to say that Phuket is getting safer after one camera is returned but people are still getting robbed, stabbed , falling/pushed from balconies and ripped off by tuk-tuk drivers and cabbies - one returned camera hardly makes Phuket safe.

Well done to the police. Hope we hear many more stories like this in future. Phuket is getting safer.

Patong is definately safer these days. I don't know about where the rest of you guys live. :)

when i saw the picture, my first thought "ah this is the thai lady boy who stole the camera!"

She is that pretty you think....

when i saw the picture, my first thought "ah this is the thai lady boy who stole the camera!"

She is that pretty you think....

come on, she is pointing her finger at the camera... so i thought she was the thief, a ladyboy thief

Well done to the police. Hope we hear many more stories like this in future. Phuket is getting safer.

I think to say that Phuket is getting safer after one camera is returned but people are still getting robbed, stabbed , falling/pushed from balconies and ripped off by tuk-tuk drivers and cabbies - one returned camera hardly makes Phuket safe.

Don't forget

Now she just has to wait for people to get back from their fact finding trip to France to get it into the tourist court.

Good enforcement!

She could be a Thai lady and the whole story is just a PR stunt for the police.

That makes more sense...

Believing that those punks actually didnt sell it and had hold of that camera for those few days, doesnt make sense!

Very nice to hear some good crime fighting news coming from Phuket. Hopefully the laws will become harsher with these type of thugs. Job well done by Phuket Police.

She could be a Thai lady and the whole story is just a PR stunt for the police.

There are those that see good in the smallest of deeds and those that look for the darkness in the best of intentions.

when i saw the picture, my first thought "ah this is the thai lady boy who stole the camera!"

Maybe not 100% wrong... Brazil probably has more lady boys than Thailand so

Well done to the police. Hope we hear many more stories like this in future. Phuket is getting safer.

I hope that is true, but I seriously doubt it ...

Are you actually so cynical that you believe this entire story was made up and is not true? Sounds to me like you actually "hope" the story's not true.

She could be a Thai lady and the whole story is just a PR stunt for the police.

That makes more sense...

Believing that those punks actually didnt sell it and had hold of that camera for those few days, doesnt make sense!

If what you say is true, then what "punks" are you talking about?

I couldn't find the camera until I saw her finger pointing at it.

She could be a Thai lady and the whole story is just a PR stunt for the police.

Some of the remarks on TV are just absolutely amazing!

PR stunt

they are copying pattaya with their monthly good taxi samaritan who brings back a bag full of (illegal) cash forgotten by distracted (drug mule?)