The victim identifies her
iPad stolen by two hotel employees (seated).
Theerarak Suthathiwong
Two waiters at a five-star resort have been arrested for keeping
an Apple iPad left in the hotel’s restaurant by a Russian tourist.
Worawut Kamlanghan, 26, was taken into custody Feb. 16 after police used
the built-in “Find My iPad” application to track the tablet computer to
Worawut’s Sophon Market-area apartment. Watchara Kamlangngam, 24, later
was arrested in an employee break room at the beach resort over
Pratamnak Hill.
Police said Watchara confessed to finding the iPad belonging to
27-year-old Olga Nazyrora when he was cleaning up the breakfast service.
Rather than turn the device in to the hotel’s lost-and-found desk,
police said he conspired with Worawut to sell the device.
However, when a pawn shop offered him less than a fourth of the device’s
value, Worawut decided to keep it and paid Watchara 2,250 baht, half
what the pawn broker offered the pair, police said.
The thieves obviously were unaware of Apple’s “Find My iPad”
application, which allows lost devices to be located via the Global
Positioning System. The application is easily disabled by resetting the
device’s operating software, but thieves around the world who were
either too lazy or ignorant to do that have found the police show up at
their doors.
Making Watchara’s bad day even worse, police drug tested him upon arrest
and found he’d been abusing methamphetamines. In addition to theft, he
now faces drug charges pending results of a full blood test.
