Two arrested for allegedly robbing Chinese teenager in Pattaya

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Two arrested for allegedly robbing Chinese teenager in Pattaya

By The Nation

 

PATTAYA: -- Pattaya police have arrested two men, one Thai and one Cambodian, for allegedly assaulting and robbing a Chinese student in the seaside city on Sunday night.

 

The arrest of Chaiyut Changsong, 26, and his Cambodian friend Hi Song Tai, 32, was announced at a press conference at 10am on Thursday at the Pattaya police station.

 

The two were charged with knocking La Chu Han, 18, unconscious on the side of the road behind the LK Grand Living Place hotel in South Pattaya on Sunday night. They then allegedly fled in a white pickup truck with her handbag.

 

Pol Lt-General Jitti Rodbangyang, commissioner of the Provincial Police Bureau 2, told the press conference that police had checked CCTV footage and traced the pickup to arrest the two at a rented house.

 

Jitti said the two worked as security officers at a company in Pattaya and had put a fake licence plate on their pickup.

 

The two men allegedly had waited at the scene for a likely victim before robbing the Chinese teenager.

 

They had tried to snatch her handbag but she had held on to it so one of the two had hit her on the head with a baton, Jitti said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30321967

 

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[balo]

Good job by the police. But they would be helpless without the CCTV footage.

[nausea]

Yeah, good work. Anything involving robbery with violence needs to be jumped on very hard.

[wakeupplease]

4 hours ago, nausea said:

Yeah, good work. Anything involving robbery with violence needs to be jumped on very hard.

Or the Chinese will go else where and bye bye tourist money as this is the last resort of income

[StefanBBK]

don't see the word alledged very often.

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[phantomfiddler]

And these guys are working as security officers ? Doesn,t anyone check obviously needed credentials for such a job ?

[mikebell]

12 minutes ago, StefanBBK said:

don't see the word alledged very often.

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That's because there's only one 'd' in it: allegedly.

If the van had false plates how did the police track it down?

[scorecard]

1 hour ago, phantomfiddler said:

And these guys are working as security officers ? Doesn,t anyone check obviously needed credentials for such a job ?

 And monitor their work performance and monitor their attitudes, etc?

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, phantomfiddler said:

And these guys are working as security officers ? Doesn,t anyone check obviously needed credentials for such a job ?

Yeah, the guy who sleeps at the gate is well vetted!

[StefanBBK]

1 hour ago, mikebell said:

That's because there's only one 'd' in it: allegedly.

If the van had false plates how did the police track it down?

alleged well noted.  However usually it is guilty before proven innocent. Never mind.   

 

Perhaps the police saw the same pickup on various CCTV cameras, and found where it went? Although having just read about all the many CCTV cameras that are not working, it seems as unlikely as tracing false plates.