A suspect has been arrested within the case of an armed gold retailer theft in Khon Kaen with CCTV footage that had gone viral. The theft happened on Saturday night, and the police introduced a suspect taken into custody earlier right now.
The theft of the gold store on the second ground of the Central Plaza Department Store in Khon Kaen had police searching for a masked man who fired a warning shot into the ceiling earlier than leaping over-the-counter and grabbing a fistful of gold necklaces and fleeing the store.
Mere had expanded the original investigation and introduced they had identified a suspect within the theft who had reportedly fled to Pathum Thani province in central Thailand. Though his identify was not launched publicly, police were capable of track down the man on the run and have brought him back to the northern province of Khon Kaen for questioning.
Police say he allegedly confessed to the crime, saying he needed the money to pay for on-line gambling debt and that he purchased a gun online that he used within the robbery. The Khon Kaen Provincial Police had supplied a reward of up to 50,000 baht for any info that lead to an arrest, however there was no phrase launched on whether any tipoff or lead had been provided by anybody who could declare the reward.
CCTV footage went viral partly as a result of man being dressed in a white T-shirt that says, “Why So Serious” with a black hood overlaying his face. But more striking in the footage is that he wandered into the gold retailer which was so busy that not one of the customers or staff appeared to even discover the masked man enter with a gun intending to rob the place. It wasn’t till he fired a single shot on the ceiling that everybody grew to become conscious of him and scrambled to flee..