News Forum - UPDATE: Central Thailand gold robber was a chief correctional officer

[Thaiger]

UPDATE The man who robbed a gold shop in central Thailand yesterday has been arrested, and found to be a chief correctional officer. The man held up a gold shop in the province of Pathum Thani, stealing 6 necklaces. Altogether, the necklaces were worth about 450,000 baht. The thief snatched the pricey necklaces from a shop in a Tesco Lotus mall in the Thayaburi district yesterday morning. After reviewing CCTV footage, officers from Thanyaburi Police Station recognised the thief as 58 year old Apichai Vejchakul. He is a chief officer at Thailand’s Department of Corrections. The police put pressure on […]

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[KaptainRob]

7 minutes ago, Transam said:

That's quite funny really..................

Tip of the iceberg, innit?   We had a local ex-policeman do similar in CM recently but it's only newsworthy due to their job, other gold thefts are seldom reported nationally.  

[Fanta]

I wonder where he will serve his prison sentence? Please make it the prison where he worked. The sniggering of the inmates would drive him to despair. 

[Prosaap]

One sold already mmm why am i suspicious