Police advise motorists to clamp their cars after auto theft gang rounded up

[snoop1130]

Police advise motorists to clamp their cars after auto theft gang rounded up

 

 

Police have advised the public to clamp their cars when parking them outside their properties at night.

 

The advice comes after a gang of seven people headed by a husband and wife were rounded up and displayed at the Sam Khok police station in Pathum Thani yesterday.

 

The leader of the gang - a 53 year old man called Somchai - had just been let out of jail where he had served time for stealing cars, Manager reported. 

 

Somchai said that the gang had done at least ten thefts in this latest caper.

 

The gang would break into houses and then steal the keys to vehicles parked outside and drive them away.

 

These were then taken to the border with another country and exchanged for drugs. The country was not named.

 

A Honda Civic that was used in pursuance of the crimes and a stolen Vigo were taken into evidence.

 

Police said that work was underway to try and retrieve the stolen vehicles from the neighboring country and return them to their owners.

 

The thefts occurred in the Saraburi and Pathum Thani areas.

 

All the gang have been charged and detained while two more gang members are currently being sought.

 

Police said that people who are obliged to leave their cars outside their properties at night should clamp their vehicles to make it as hard as possible for such gangs to steal them.

 

Source: https://manager.co.th/Crime/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9600000055200

 

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[GuiseppeD]

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The leader of the gang - a 53 year old man called Somchai ...

 

You couldn't make this sh1t up.  LOL.

[trainman34014]

And how exactly were these cars getting through the border point to another country ?   I suspect a few more transfers to 'inactive posts' coming up when transfers straight to jail would be more apt.

[taichiplanet]

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

The gang would break into houses and then steal the keys to vehicles parked outside and drive them away.

 

Police said that people who are obliged to leave their cars outside their properties at night should clamp their vehicles to make it as hard as possible for such gangs to steal them.

or maybe hide the keys so they can't find them!!!

 

 

 

[Upnotover]

2 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The country was not named

Why?

[berybert]

Clamp the car and leave the key with the key to the car.

You lose the clamp as well as the car. Looks like a member of the RTP has a relative who runs a car clamping business.

Never miss a trick some people.

[Thaiwrath]

Give the maximum, hopefully severe, prison sentence to these and any future car thieves, and, although it won't eradicate the problem altogether, it might see a drop in the number of future miscreants.

[fruitman]

Now i get it, they want people to clamp their own cars so it looks like the police did it. 

 

I've seen clamped cars before with very unprofessional clamps, guess the owners clamped them themselves.

[Rob13]

8 hours ago, Upnotover said:

Why?

It's a secret country.

[metisdead]

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Edited June 1, 2017 by metisdead

[fish monger]

If they are suggesting clamping the steering wheel, that doesn't do a damn thing. Back home, they just cut the steering wheel. POOF, gone.

[crystal sauce]

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The gang would break into houses and then steal the keys to vehicles parked outside and drive them away.

 

These were then taken to the border with another country and exchanged for drugs. The country was not named.

So no checking at the borders who is driving or whose car is it, Thailand is really a crazy country

Edited June 1, 2017 by crystal sauce

[bangkokairportlink]

And car owners don't have a GPS tracker in their car ? Ridiculous them...

 

 

[crystal sauce]

26 minutes ago, bangkokairportlink said:

And car owners don't have a GPS tracker in their car ? Ridiculous them...

 

 

I wonder if I can find a GPS for my motorbike, is there one can be bought and hidden on the motorbike please.

[Redline]

No enforcement, no accountability, no action.  Get rid of the police if they won't do anything, and let the community dole out punishment.  Make the punishments fit the crime as well

[impulse]

19 hours ago, crystal sauce said:

I wonder if I can find a GPS for my motorbike, is there one can be bought and hidden on the motorbike please.

 

Head over to Lazada.com and search

 

gps gsm gprs tracker

 

Lots of choices for reasonable money.  (Edit: And a few for crazy money...)

 

Edited June 2, 2017 by impulse