Friday 5 August 2011

14-year-old boy was arrested trying to snatch a Russian tourist's handbag in Pattaya

14-year-old boy was arrested trying to snatch a Russian tourist's handbag in Pattaya later the handbag was stolen by a motorbike man who was arrested for theft and possession of marijuana.

Pattaya, August 3, 2011 [PDN]; Pol.Lt.Col. Panlop Ringrod, Pattaya police was informed of a bag-snatch at Lam Balihai. The suspect was caught by the victims and the onlookers.

At the scene, the police found the victims; Mr Yuri Safonov, age 33, Russian and his girlfriend, Ms. Galina Irgizkina, age 29, and witnesses who caught the suspect “Pol” age 14.

Mr Yuri Safonov reported to the police, that as he and his girlfriend were going back to the hotel, the two suspects rode their motorbike close to them and snatched his girlfriend’s handbag. He ran after them and grabed the suspect’s shirt and one of suspects fell from the motorbike with the handbag. The other suspect escaped to South Pattaya where the volunteer police was waiting to arrest him. The suspect tried to escape again and hit two volunteer police injuring them. Later the suspect was arrested along with the Honda Wave motorbike, registration Ngor-Kor-Kor 351 Chonburi.



The 14- year-old suspects confessed that they were from Rayong and had skipped school and went to visit their friend in Pattaya, borrowed his bike in order to snatch bags from tourists which they did twice before being arrested.

During the investigation, the victims informed the police that their handbag had disappeared. The suspect told the police that the handbag fell during the snatch. Later, they were informed by the onlookers that the handbag was taken by a motorbike man.



The police searched and found the motorbike man, Mr Pradu Konklong, age 37. He denied the accusation at first. The police searched his body and found a pack of marihauna. After being investigated by the police, he confessed that he took the handbag from at the incident and went to hide it at the motorbike taxi stand. The police went to the motorbike taxi stand and found the victim’s handbag containing 1,720 THB, a Sony mobile phone, a Sumsung digital camera, a hotel key card and cosmetics.

Both 14 years old suspects were detained and charged of stealing and Mr Pradu was charged of Marijuana posession and theft.

In addition, during 18:00-24:00 hrs on the same day there were five motorbike to bag-snatch cases in Pattaya. Only one case led to the arrest of the suspects. The police assumes that the suspects were teens from Pattaya and nearby provinces. The police will set up special team to prevent further bag-snatches.

Pattaya Municipalily called for the jet ski operators to register their jet ski businesses

Pattaya Municipalily called for the jet ski operators to register their jet ski businesses, to have insurances and stop extorting money from tourists. The jet ski operators claimed that they could not afford the insurance fee.

Pattaya, August 3, 2011, [PDN]; Pattaya Municipal Administration, Mr Chaowalit Seanguthai, Banglamung Deputy Chief Officer, Mr Ronnakij Ekasing, Pattaya Deputy Mayor, Mr. Soontorn Rattanavaraha, Pattaya District Chief, Pattaya Police and a various jet ski operators met to solve Pattaya’s jet ski problem.



Mr Soontorn Rattanavaraha, Pattaya District Chief said that the news of jet ski operators extorting money from tourists has affected the image of Pattaya. Therefore, the following recommendations were discussed; the jet ski operators must be registered and the data checked by the police annually. The area for permitted jet ski usage would be set up and the operators must have their jet skis insured.

Two types of insurance; a long term insurance and an hourly insurance. The insurance would cover the jet ski, property and life. Implementation of a jet ski tax insurance; a coupon which the operator could buy at Pattaya municipality. The coupon would be divided into three parts; jet ski rental, insurance and tax.



Mr. Chaowalit Seanguthai, Banglamung Deputy Chief Officer and his team had investigated the jet ski problem and found that tourists were still exploited by the jet ski operators. When a jet ski was damaged the operator would collect a lot more money than the actual cost for repair.

As for the jet ski operators, they disagreed with the Pattaya Municipality’s recommendation because the cost of insurance was high compared to their revenue. They admitted that there were some jet ski operators who extorted money from the tourists. The jet ski operators they wanted the municipality to monitor all operators to prevent further incidents.The police should prosecute the unlawful operators and their jet ski operation permits should be cancelled. As for the insurance, an independent insurance company should to assess a fair price of insurance.



In addition, August 9-10 2011, (PDN) The jet ski operators in Pattaya should have their jet skis and their drivers registered with the Pattaya municipality as soon as possible.The registration would allow the officers to know the jet ski owner/operator in case of a problem or an accident. If the operators will not register they will be not be allowed to rent their jet skis to tourists.

Thai police have arrested two Swedish nationals as prime suspects in the murder of a compatriot earlier this week on Phuket Island

Thai police have arrested two Swedish nationals as prime suspects in the murder of a compatriot earlier this week on Phuket Island, police said Thursday.
Phuket police arrested Tommy Viktor Soderlund, 26, and Johan Sebastian Ljung, 26, on Tuesday, a day after the death of Russian-born Swede Maksim Schantz, 25.
'The two Swedes have confessed to the murder of Schantz and if found guilty could face a maximum sentence of life in prison,' said Police Colonel Komol Wattraporn, Phuket's deputy chief of police.
According to their testimony, Soderlund and Ljung traced Schantz to Phuket, 600 kilometres south-west of Bangkok, via his Facebook page and followed him to the island on a mission of revenge.
They said they had previously worked with Schantz running an internet scam in Pattaya, a Thai beach resort situated 100 kilometres east of Bangkok, involving selling shoddy products via their website.
Schantz had allegedly informed Pattaya police of the swindle, leading to the arrest of Soderlund on charges of working in Thailand without the proper permits.
After Soderlund was released from Pattaya prison, the two Swedes tracked Schantz down to Phuket three weeks ago, and equipped with a knife, gun and rope, attacked him Monday night with the intent of taking him back to his rented house.
When Schantz put up a fight, Ljung allegedly stabbed him in the neck, killing him.
The two Swedes fled the scene but were caught the next day at the Surin Sweet Hotel on Surin beach.
According to their pasports, Soderlund and Ljung had been living in Thailand on tourist visas for about three years, Komol said in a telephone inetyrview with the German

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