Background checks carried out into Brit arrested in Phuket for theft

[snoop1130]

Background checks carried out into Brit arrested in Phuket for theft

Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

Background checks are now being carried out on British national Charlie Machin. Photo: Tatiana Motora

 

PHUKET:-- Police are conducting background checks with the Royal Thai Police, Immigration Police and Interpol into the 52-year-old British man arrested for theft by Cherng Talay Police last Thursday (Feb 23).

 

The checks are being conducted after police learned that the man, identified by a British passport naming him as Charlie Machin, does not have a job or has not been working during his stay on the island.

 

At just after 1am last Thursday, Lt Col Saard Wongweangjan together with Lt Col Chaiyut Kongkaew of the Cherng Talay Police arrested British national Machin at a property in Soi Na Koh, Moo 3, Cherng Talay following a tip-off that he was suspected of stealing items, including an iPhone 6 from a foreign woman in Cherng Talay.

 

Using the Track My iPhone app, Russian expat Tatiana Motora, whose house in Cherng Talay had just been robbed, found that her iPhone was at a property in Soi Na Koh. She informed the police, who went and found Machin in the house along with the stolen iPhone.

 

Police also seized as evidence two iPhone 6s, an iPad, a Cannon camera, a MacBook, two brown wallets, four passports, a key chain, an external hard disk, a black bag and a Yamaha motorbike.

 

Last Friday (Feb 24), Lt Col Sakon Krainara also of the Cherng Talay Police confirmed to The Phuket News that Machin admitted to stealing the iPhone from Ms Motora and that the other items had been stolen from Kamala, Thalang and Sakoo.

 

Full Story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/background-checks-carried-out-into-brit-arrested-in-phuket-for-theft-61213.php#xvxScqfIz3XloRBA.97

 

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[dabhand]

From the PG of May 2015, Karon police might be able to assist.

 

http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket-news/Mysterious-Brit-burglar-Charlie-Machin-on-run/58037

 

PHUKET: Karon Police are still trying to track down a British thief, known only by his alias ‘Charlie Machin’, who is wanted for robbing a Swedish man’s home of about 200,000 baht in valuables in March (story here).

“We only have this name and a few pictures of him. All farang [Caucasians] look the same. It has been very hard to find him,” Lt Chamaiporn Supakom of the Karon Police told the Phuket Gazette.
 

Edited March 1, 2017 by dabhand

[NCC1701A]

" Police also seized as evidence two iPhone 6s, an iPad, a Cannon camera, a MacBook, two brown wallets, four passports, a key chain, an external hard disk, a black bag and a Yamaha motorbike."

 

...or how about a McCulloch chainsaw, a Las Vegas wedding, a Mexican divorce, a solid gold Kama Sutra coffee pot, or a baby's arm holding an apple?

[USPatriot]

Get him for working without a work permit  stealing was his job

[Get Real]

With a job like that, one does not need a work!

[catman20]

too many bums and low lifes all around the world 

[Psimbo]

'He did not have a job or has not been working during his stay on the island'.

 

Most of us don't.

[Bullie]

13 hours ago, USPatriot said:

Get him for working without a work permit  stealing was his job

You are right! If it is not on the "jobs for Thai only" list, it should definitely be put there pronto! Pesky foreigners, stealing our jobs.

[FredNL]

Just getting rid of the competition....