Myanmar national arrested selling stolen phones at Central Festival Phuket

 

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

Moe Win Ko, 21 (centre in white shirt), is interrogated by police. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub
 

PHUKET: A Myanmar national was arrested at Central Festival Phuket yesterday (Aug 26) while trying to sell six stolen mobile phones.

 

Provincial Police led by Col Akanit Danpitaksarn arrested 21-year-old Moe Win Ko at 1:30pm yesterday when he was found trying to sell six mobile phones to a mobile phone counter on the second floor of Central Festival Phuket in Wichit.

 

Police said the arrest of Moe came after the owner of the Olayphone mobile phone shop on Patak Rd in Karon filed a complaint at Karon Police Station where he said that a thief had broken in to his shop at 3am yesterday and stolen 13 mobile phones worth B200,000 and B8,000 from the till.

 

Karon Police alerted police in other areas to be on the lookout Moe after he was seen on CCTV footage. Police also contacted mobile phones shops and counters in their areas and asked them to let them know if they saw the suspect.

 

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/myanmar-national-arrested-selling-stolen-phones-at-central-festival-phuket-58860.php#D3vWvS4SWO2jzebt.97

 

 

 

-- © Copyright Phuket News 2016-08-27

 

 

immature young thief who really did not know what he was doing.

The phone is honest really but sometimes you will have to answer to the name of Richard and give some medical advice.

Moe should have stuck to his day job (if he had one), as it seems he is hopeless as a burglar. Perhaps, he could have sought some help from Curley or Larry when it came to keeping his sticky fingers to himself!

 

 

Amusingly too, the caption under the Phuket Gazette photo had to add that the accused was "...centre in white shirt..." so we could identify him from the other shady characters in the group!

 

On a more serious note, I'm surprised the reporter (Eakkapop Thongtub) didn't just say he was a "foreigner" and leave it at that. To say he is a Myanmar national only adds to the tension about migrant workers on the island. http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket-news/Must-stamp-illegal-migrant-camps-says-Phuket/63736

As for the Olayphone owner's assertion that he lost 13 mobile phones worth ฿200,000 - well, lets just say that equates to over ฿15,000 each. At wholesale prices they must have been pretty good phones!