Wanted burglars arrested while enjoying Sattahip beach
published : 5 Apr 2023 at 09:34
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Chaiyot Pupattanapong
Four men relaxing at a beach in Sattahip district had their holiday ruined when police arrested them for burglaries in the East and the Northeast.
Police detectives and military police took Wisarut Phanduang, 23, Chairan Kongking, 29, Khamsing Deekhong, 40, and Chakrit Phutthasawat, 22, into custody on Tuesday at Nam Sai beach in the compound of the Royal Thai Fleet.
The four suspects were holidaying with friends, police said.
They also impounded their two vehicles - a Toyota Vios car and an Isuzu D-Max pickup truck.
Police had been hunting the gang, wanted for the theft of safes and their contents during night-time burglaries of homes in the northeastern provinces of Khon Kaen and Nakhon Ratchasima and the eastern province of Prachin Buri.
Police said the gang was believed to have been very active throughout the East and the Northeast.
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Vocabulary
- active: currently working -
- burglar: someone who enters a building illegally in order to steal things (the crime is known as burglary) - ผู้ร้ายย่องเบา, คนลักขโมยของ,
- burglary (noun): the crime of entering a building illegally and stealing things from it - การบุกเข้ามาขโมยของในอาคาร/บ้าน
- compound: an area enclosed by a fence or wall, usually in which people work or live - บริเวณ
- contents: what is inside something - จำนวนของสิ่งที่บรรจุอยู่
- custody: the state of being in prison or under police control, especially while waiting for trial - การกักขัง, การคุมขัง
- impounded: taken away by the police - ยึดไว้เป็นของกลาง
- ruined: destroyed; spoiled - แหลกลาญ, ชำรุดทรุดโทรม, ปรักหักพัง
- suspect: a person who is thought to have committed a crime - ผู้ต้องสงสัย
- theft (noun): (the act of) dishonestly taking something which belongs to someone else and keeping it - การลักขโมย
