Five Vietnamese suspects arrested for shoplifting

[Thaivisa News]

Bangkok:- Five Vietnamese suspects have come to Thailand’s Chiang Mai province a few times already with the ultimate goal of stealing expensive fashion products.

But this time, they got arrested.

On Monday, police announced the arrests of five Vietnamese shoplifters. They are between 24 and 39 years old.

All of them were nabbed in front of a hotel in Chiang Mai. Found in their possession are 54 pieces of blouses, shirts, belts, and hats that they secretly took out of the Central Festival Chiangmai. Altogether, these products are worth Bt48,570.

“We have received a report that shoplifting took place at the shopping complex. So, we checked recordings from security cameras there,” Chiang Mai’s police chief Pol Maj General Montri Sambunnanont says.

According to police, recordings show these suspects were from the same gang. One of them portrayed herself as a customer and engaged sales assistant. Four other suspects then quickly put other products in the same shop into their specially-made bags.

Stuffed with foil, these bags helped the thieves evade the detection of anti-theft system. They could leave without any alarm going off.

The Vietnamese suspects have confessed that they had successfully shoplifted many fashion products from the Central Plaza Chiangmai Airport and Central Festival Chiangmai two times before. They took the stolen products back to Vietnam for sale, receiving hundreds of thousand baht.

The shoplifters are now detained pending further legal actions.

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