Tourist police recently arrested two Khao San tour bus company owners who stole cash and goods from passengers, including Crocs and New Balance brand shoes.
Trat police paraded the arrested married couple – Sarawut Saipanya, age 41, and Chanika Saipanya, age 35, who operated the Saipanya Tour Company bus from Khao San Road to Koh Chang – in a press conference yesterday.
Officers acting on complaints from tourists about missing items, found credit cards, 12 different kinds of currencies, clothes from the Gap, and a cornucopia of different brand-name shoes including Crocs, New Balances, and Fit-flops. They estimated that the total value of the stolen contraband at THB700,000.
Following an investigation, police arrested the couple who made a full confession.
Sarawut said that he and his wife owned two buses that brought tourists from Khao San to Koh Chang that they had operated for one year. The couple would hop into the bus storage compartment’s and sift through suitcases for valuables and then exit when it stopped on the motorway.
The married couple had also used stolen credit cards for shopping sprees, the Daily News reported.
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