High end booze and watch thief comes to another end - his arrest

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

BANGKOK: -- Police in Pathumwan in Bangkok have reported the arrest of a man who was stealing expensive alcoholic drinks and watches at many top stores in the downtown area.

 

Chaisit Laotaew, 44, would assume the character of a tourist and speak English. When sales staff were distracted he would simply walk out with expensive items.

 

Then he would sell the items on the internet.

 

He was caught after stealing a bottle of Hennessey Paradis (70cl) worth 90,000 baht and a Ballantine 30 Year for 15,865 baht.

 

Police nabbed him shortly after those thefts in a Rolex store.

 

He admitted to theft and a string of other offences over the last few weeks.

 

Police said in May he stole a 60,000 baht bottle of alcohol at Central World.

 

On June 1st he made off with two bottles of booze worth 100,000 baht at Siam Paragon.

 

On the 10th of June it was Emquartier - 100,000 baht.

 

Last year her admitted to stealing a Franz Muller watch worth a million baht from Paragon that he later sold on to a foreigner for 500,000 baht.

 

He has been charged wit theft during the hours of darkness.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-06-15

If you're gonna do it, do it with style, no 600 baht phone holders for this guy.

So a Thai who can speak English bamboozles other Thais into dropping their guard.  Why is it then whenever I go into a department store I am followed everywhere by a posse of sixteen assistants? 

 "a 60,000 baht bottle of alcohol" 

 

Oooft! That's my yearly budget for bevy  . . . .  

"He has been charged wit theft during the hours of darkness."

 

Is stealing after sunset more serious than stealing during the day?

If you leave such expensive items for every dick tom and Somchai to steal,

than you bloody deserve it.. did they hear about locked cabinets of this is too much to ask from the sales staff?...

9 minutes ago, daboyz1 said:

"He has been charged wit theft during the hours of darkness."

 

Is stealing after sunset more serious than stealing during the day?

yes it is.

 

yes it is.
 

Thanks for the clarification.

Stealing at night time makes the sentence double ....a good idea nothing more scary than a burgler in your house in the middle of the night ..

3 hours ago, daboyz1 said:

"He has been charged wit theft during the hours of darkness."

 

Is stealing after sunset more serious than stealing during the day?

Yes, the punishment will be double than it would be during the day.

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Last year her admitted to stealing a Franz Muller watch worth a million baht

He also stole the 'ck' of 'Franck Muller' and replaced it with a 'z', when nobody was 'watching', crafty bugger.

Similar difference used to be in England between burglary which was breaking in at night and simple housebreaking which was during the day. Since the 1968 Theft Act, burglary is the offence for breaking in anytime.

 

Still differentiated in Scotland which doesn't use the Theft Act.

A troll post has been removed as well as a reply.

Hennessey Paradis (70cl) worth 90,000 baht and a Ballantine 30 Year for 15,865 baht

 

Ahh the good old Freetrade 300% tax on imported goods

 

Me thinks the rest of us should do the same on imports from here and buy from clean other trade places

I find it amazing how the criminals admit their crimes (and others) so quickly.

 

Last year her admitted to stealing a Franz Muller watch worth a million baht from Paragon that he later sold on to a foreigner for 500,000 baht.

 

which of you is the ''Foreigner"... ?

I wouldn't trust the product of something supposed to be that expensive being sold for so cheap. It's either a knock off or it's been knocked off. 

 

As for "deserving" to be stolen from for not having your shop not like Fort Knox? Really?