Chiang Mai hunt for "Arab" gold shop thief after rings theft

[webfact]

Chiang Mai hunt for "Arab" gold shop thief after rings theft

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Police in Chiang Mai are hunting for a thief who held up a gold shop at the Thanin market yesterday.

 

Saleswoman at the O-eh shop Benjaporn Janthawong, 24, said that a middle eastern looking man came into the store speaking a language she didn't know.

 

He went for his pocket appearing to be about to produce a weapon.

 

He then tried to get in the back of the shop that was locked. But managed to put his hand through some bars to retrieve a tray of gold rings.

 

He was able to steal 14 one quarter baht weight rings and flee.

 

He was wearing a light blue t-shirt and had tattoos on his right arm.

 

Police said that he had come to the area on a rented motorcycle. A check was made on exit points at the train station and bus stations but police said he was likely still in the city, reported Thai Rath.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-08-29

[sanemax]

"Quality tourists . 500 Baht fine . Slap on the wrists .Two weeks in a Temple. Red bull heir . Burmese 2 . Donald Trump "

 

    Have I missed anything ?

[Thaiwrath]

3 minutes ago, webfact said:

held up a gold shop

Throw your life away for the sake of a bit of money, hard to understand.

He probably didn't do it in his home country, so he could keep his hands attached to his wrists !

[trainman34014]

Should get caught pretty quickly with those shoes !

[StayinThailand2much]

2 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

Should get caught pretty quickly with those shoes !

They are the real crime! 

[KhunBENQ]

I love the pixelation on the T-shirt.

No covered advertising in Thailand

[wvavin]

So quality tourists have migrated from Pattaya & Phuket to Chiangmai now.

[holy cow cm]

Immigration Eye / Face recognition and finger prints left at the scene will get him if not already. Stupid criminals deserve what they get. Or maybe he has the Yingluck escape route somehow and is already gone? STUPID.  

[sn1per]

9 hours ago, sanemax said:

"Quality tourists . 500 Baht fine . Slap on the wrists .Two weeks in a Temple. Red bull heir . Burmese 2 . Donald Trump "

 

    Have I missed anything ?

found a wallet with 1m baht and gave it back

[Ruffian Dick]

Key to successful thievery: appear to be middle-eastern, unless you are, and speak in an incomprehensible tongue.

[Get Real]

15 hours ago, sanemax said:

"Quality tourists . 500 Baht fine . Slap on the wrists .Two weeks in a Temple. Red bull heir . Burmese 2 . Donald Trump "

 

    Have I missed anything ?

Yeah! You missed logic. 

[hgma]

got him already....had to be up early this morning and he was interviewed...even wore the same shirt.

 

[tandor]

15 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

Throw your life away for the sake of a bit of money, hard to understand.

He probably didn't do it in his home country, so he could keep his hands attached to his wrists !

..obviously a first offender.

[tandor]

6 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

Immigration Eye / Face recognition and finger prints left at the scene will get him if not already. Stupid criminals deserve what they get. Or maybe he has the Yingluck escape route somehow and is already gone? STUPID.  

...Yingluck said 'give me a ring sometime'..but he got lost in translation.

[patrick kennedy]

They are not shoes but gloves.

[patrick kennedy]

Someone told him they fitted like a glove.

[Nemesis7]

Dumb in deed. No planing , no nothing just a heist game he played . Must have watched how to robe a gold shop in YouTube and followed the technique...silly man 

[webfact]

UPDATE:

 

Chiang Mai gold shop robber is down on his luck ex US serviceman

 

Picture: Sanook 

 

CHIANG MAI: -- Police in Chiang Mai have made a quick arrest of a man who stole 14 rings from a downtown gold shop.

 

Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/999484-chiang-mai-gold-shop-robber-is-down-on-his-luck-ex-us-serviceman/

[WinnieTheKhwai]

 

Not Arab, not Chinese, not African... . ... : 

 

Edited August 30, 2017 by WinnieTheKhwai

[zaZa9]

So the unintelligible language was American ?

Yoobecha ... lol