Security footage showing a
Caucasian male allegedly stealing a motorcycle.
Boonlua Chatree
Soi Buakaow residents apprehended a British man
accused of stealing a neighborhood businesswoman’s motorbike.
Sean Patrick Flanagan, 57, was corralled near the
Little Cross Hotel March 25 after Pisamai Ieminth, 51, called for help,
claiming the Brit had stolen her grey Yamaha Nuevo. Police arrested
Flanagan after arriving at the scene.
Pisamai said she was pulling her car in at her
Buakaow Mortgage shop when she saw someone stealing her motorbike parked
there. She told police she ran inside to check security camera footage
and was shocked to see it was a foreigner taking the bike.
She ran back outside and pursued the thief, spotting
her motorbike near some beer bars. Flanagan tried to escape when he
spotted her, Pisamai said, and she screamed for help to catch him.
Police said Flanagan remained defiant at Pattaya
Police Station, refusing to surrender his passport, denying the theft
charges and refusing to sign the charges. He was jailed pending further
action.
