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Police Arrest Two Young Bag Snatchers

CityNews – After some foreigners and Thais reported to police that they had been the victims of attempted muggings around the downtown area of Chiang Mai police started an investigation which led the arrest of two men.

On the 27^th of April Pol.Col. Aksorn Wongyai and Pol.Col. Graisri Jurapan arrested two Akha hill tribe men, 19 year old Sima Tasae, and 25 year old Suntorn Molaeku, from the Mae Ai district. These two men were arrested on the 26^th of April, 2012 for robbery, not long after they had been released from jail for the same crime.

Since the Songkran Festival, Chiang Mai police have been getting reports of robbery from both tourists and Thais, the website Thaivisa also has a post in which people reported being a victim of mugging.The robbers made away with a purse and a cell phone. After an investigation led by the police, they found that the two Akha men developed a system where Sima Tasae would commit the robbery, then pass the stolen items on to Satorn Molaeku, who would sell them. The two men confessed that they have committed numerous robberies usually with another man, Arlong Maayer, who had left Chiang Mai.

On the 17^th of April, at 9 p.m., the gang made away with a Sony cell phone from Anna Mariadarin, a Swedish tourist, in front of Chiang Man Temple.

On the 19^th of April, at 10:30 p.m., they committed a robbery near Mahawan Temple on Tapae Road involving tourists. 

On 20^th April, they committed a robbery in front of Bunyu Market also on a tourist, and this time escaping with a purse and 1,200 baht in cash.

On the 22^nd April, they committed robbery at Upakud intersection, Changklan, and made away with 2,000 baht.

On 23^rd of April, they committed yet another robbery in front of New Asia Hotel.

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