Pattaya police arrested a newly arrived British tourist who allegedly stole a motorbike and used it to rob another man of his handbag.
Ben Frost, 39, was captured on Central Road Jan. 4 following the alleged Dec. 30 crime spree in which is was accused of stealing a Honda motorbike from Chanida Muangsak, 30, on Soi 5, then driving to the Made in Thailand beer bar where he allegedly snatched a handbag belonging to 23-year-old Nattawuth Damdong.
Chanida, a photographer for a tour boat company based on Soi 5, said she’d parked her bike outside the office, but left the key in the ignition. Her friends saw a foreign man hovering around the scene and then jump on her bike and go. The friends gave pursuit, but lost him on Central Road.
Frost apparently ducked into the beer bar on the soi next to the market where he sat down next to Nattawuth. When the Thai man got up to order a beer, Frost allegedly ran out with the bag left on a chair containing a smartphone and 900 baht and sped off on the stolen motorbike.
Frost perpetrated the crimes the same day he arrived in Thailand, police said.
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