An elderly German man was drugged and robbed of about 500,000 baht in cash by a woman he picked up on Soi Buakaow.
Harmut Lothar Dietrich Herrmann, 66, was found naked and dazed, lying on his bed in his hotel room near the former X-Zyte disco Oct. 28. His room had been ransacked and police recovered a half-drank beverage on the table.
Hotel clerk Vilaiwan Chaiyapruek said Herrmann had gone out that morning and returned with a Thai woman in her 30s, who left around 3 p.m. No thought was given to Herrmann until a German friend came to visit and found the victim semi-unconscious.
Police are trying to identify this woman, seen here in hotel security camera footage, suspected of drugging and robbing and older German man.
Herrmann told police he’d met the streetwalker while going to the ATM machine on Soi Buakaow and that, after their dalliance, she’d prepared coffee for them. He soon after felt dizzy and passed out. He awoke to find 100,000 baht and 12,000 euros missing from his room safe.
Police are trying to identify the suspect from hotel security camera footage.
