Police finally caught Nadir
Ladmia after he had been hiding amongst clothing racks in a local mall.
Boonlua Chatree
An Algerian man has been arrested for allegedly stealing a
room safe from the hotel room of two Kuwaitis earlier this month.
Nadir Ladmia, 39, was captured in the Central department
store following a two-hour pursuit June 14.
Ladmia was wanted for allegedly removing a safe from the
Eurasia Hotel June 1 after surreptitiously obtaining a key to a room rented by
Kuwaitis Fahad Hamdan Marzoug, 23, and Khaled Mahamed, 29.
The Algerian was then able to walk out of the hotel with the
safe in a bag. In the safe was 27,000 baht, notebook computer, passports, credit
cards and other documents.
Before the Kuwaitis canceled their bank cards, police said,
Ladmia removed 208,000 baht from their bank accounts.
Ladmia’s departure on his motorbike was captured by
closed-circuit television cameras, but he was not located until June 14, when a
friend of the victims told police they had seen him on Soi Buakaow.
Police responded, pursuing the suspect to the beachfront
mall, where he hid among clothing racks for two hours before being caught.
