Tanongsak Boonket is the
third man arrested for last month’s robbery of a Sukhumvit Road
automated-teller machine.
Teerarak Suthathiwong
Pattaya-area police have arrested a third man in last month’s
robbery of a Sukhumvit Road automated-teller machine.
Tanongsak Boonket, 24, was apprehended May 21 in front of a Bangkok
convenience store carrying 100,000 baht of the 2 million baht stolen
from the Siam Commercial Bank ATM outside S-Concrete Co. April 29. A
subsequent search of his South Pattaya apartment recovered another
120,000 baht.
All but one of the four suspects in the heist that employed a blow torch
to drill through the lock of the ATM cabinet have been captured. Atit
Sangprasert, 32, was captured May 1 at his home in Pathum Thani. Region
2 police recovered 200,000 baht in slightly singed 1,000-baht notes,
welding equipment and the black Honda CR-V identified in security-camera
footage. And Tanongsak’s 17-year-old brother Suksan was also captured
shortly after.
Police said Tanongsak admitted he was the one who used the welding torch
to drill into the ATM. Once they got the money, the thieves split the
loot and he hid 120,000 baht underneath the bed in his rental room, then
fled to Bangkok where he has been having a good time spending money, he
said.
The same burglars are suspected to have committed four other ATM
robberies in Bangkok, but were never caught.
