Passenger arrested for Rolex theft on flight
published : 12 Mar 2024 at 08:32
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Sutthiwit Chayutworakan
A Chinese traveller has been arrested for allegedly stealing an expensive watch and cash from another passenger during a flight from Mumbai in India to Bangkok.
Suvarnabhumi airport said on Monday that 48-year-old Yi Xiangyang had been detained and charged with theft.
Mr Yi allegedly stole a Rolex watch and $2,800 in cash from an Indian passenger. They were passengers on Vistara flight UK123 from Mumbai to Bangkok last Thursday.
The Indian passenger complained to Suvarnabhumi airport police after disembarking, saying his watch and money had been stolen. Police and security officials at the airport examined security camera footage and agreed Mr Yi was the prime suspect.
The airport chief said Mr Yi had left the airport in a hurry, in a taxi, after completing immigration procedures. He had not waited to collect any bags from the plane.
Tourist police had tracked Mr Yi to a hotel on Ratchadaphisek road, where he was arrested.
He faces charges of theft on board an aircraft, which carries a fine of 20,000 to 100,000 baht and/or one to seven years in prison if found guilty.
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Vocabulary
- charge: to accuse someone officially of committing a crime - ตั้งข้อกล่าวหา
- detained: kept in a place and not allowed to leave - กักตัว ควบคุมตัวหรือฝากขัง
- disembark: to leave a vehicle, especially a ship or an aircraft, at the end of a journey - ออกจากพาหนะ
- footage: film of a particular subject or event - ฟิลม์หรือคลิปภาพยนตร์
- guilty: having been decided by a court of law that you committed the crime your were accused of - มีความผิด
- immigration: the process in which people enter a country in order to live there permanently - การย้ายถิ่นฐาน
- prime suspect: the person police think is most likely to have committed a crime -
- theft (noun): (the act of) dishonestly taking something which belongs to someone else and keeping it - การลักขโมย
- track: to follow the course of a moving object such as a ship, aircraft or animal using special equipment - ติดตาม, ตามรอย
