webfact 79,128 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Receptionist drugged, hotel robbed in Phuket Tanyaluk Sakoot PHUKET: -- Police are looking for a foreigner who drugged the receptionist at the Karon Place Hotel, Phuket, on Monday (January 14) and then robbed the safety deposit boxes behind the counter. The belongings of 21 hotel guests, believed to worth as much as B3 million, were stolen. The thief also took away the recording from the hotel’s CCTV camera. Superintendent of Investigations, Pol Col Wanchai Palawan told The Phuket News, “The robber gave coffee to the receptionist who felt drowsy and then fell asleep.” When he woke up he found all the safety boxes had been opened and their contents stolen. The Deputy Commander of Phuket Town Police, Col Arun Keawwati said, “Hotel guests who left their belongings in the safety boxes have lost passports, cash in a variety of currencies, cameras and mobile phones.” Col Arun said the robber was “Middle East looking” with fair skin. He added that police believe the robbery may be the work of a gang. “There was a similar robbery in Samui,” he explained. Source: http://www.thephuket...huket-36367.php -- The Phuket News 2013-01-17 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post JetsetBkk 8,215 Posted January 17, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 17, 2013 Farangs drugging Thais? That's a twist. 24 Link to post Share on other sites
DiamondKing 2,271 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Who puts there Mobile/Cell phone in the hotels safety deposit boxes ??? would they not be using them Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post kjun12 340 Posted January 17, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 17, 2013 Where else but the sow's nest of Phuket? The entire city should be closed by the Consumer Protection Office. 4 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Charlie Cheap 30 Posted January 17, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 17, 2013 The logical explanation is that they were purchasing cheap pre-pay cell phones here and keeping their expensive phones from their perspective countries in the hotel safe deposit boxes. 9 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Charlie Cheap 30 Posted January 17, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 17, 2013 I was thinking the same thing. After I was thinking it was an inside job and a fabricated story of a foreigner. 6 Link to post Share on other sites
steelepulse 5,831 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Sounds like the same guy from Samui and the cops arrested the wrong guy over there. Same modus operandi. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Schuimpge 69 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Must be a TV member who read about the mistake from the first one in Koh Samui... Next on the news: TV..for all your do's and don't to become a successful criminal... Lol Link to post Share on other sites
hgma 1,226 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Who puts there Mobile/Cell phone in the hotels safety deposit boxes ??? would they not be using them Senior member and living in thailand? Link to post Share on other sites
kerrysum 177 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Well I hate to say it, But Phuket is getting a pretty bad name, and now they blame it on foreigners????? Never have in a life time visited this part of the South, just always liked Issan..... But this is going beyond stupidity in reporting ..... Good posts, thanks all, and please watch your ass ok????? Have a wonderful year!!!!! Kilosierra 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post bill014 171 Posted January 17, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 17, 2013 I don't believe the story. Never been to an hotel yet where you've needed to drug the receptionists. They seem to be able to fall asleep on their own!! 28 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Misterwhisper 15,722 Posted January 17, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 17, 2013 And the scumbag even had the presence of mind to remove the CCTV tape. Now, THAT's what I'd call professionalism. The supposedly foreign thief's local counterparts still have a lot to learn... Yet a few detail in the story somehow don't add up: The thief broke into 21 safety deposit boxes behind the counter. How long did that take and how shoddy were those locks? And were there no other people around in the lobby the entire time? Why did the receptionist accept a cup of coffee from a supposed non-guest? I mean, if the thief WERE a guest, the receptionist could have easily identified him and in which room he was/had been staying, and also his passport details would be on file. I smell something fishy here... but that's perhaps just me, always suspicious. 21 Link to post Share on other sites
swifty5x5 378 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Who puts there Mobile/Cell phone in the hotels safety deposit boxes ??? would they not be using them When I first came to Thailand my cell not work here so I also put it in safety deposit box. Link to post Share on other sites
qdinthailand 255 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Farangs drugging Thais? That's a twist. My understanding, farang refers to the westerners, especially the white ones. Not sure that middle-easterners fall into this category. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Mr Brown 20 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Col Arun said the robber was “Middle East looking” with fair skin?????? Link to post Share on other sites
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