Cops hatch surprise for thief
A minibus driver led a gold thief right to the arms of Chon Buri police after liaising with his victims in Chanthaburi.
Marosati Je Ali after being nabbed on the minivan.
Ten police from Ban Bueng station last week set up a checkpoint on Highway 344 after hearing a gold thief, Marosati Je Ali, 30, was on board a minibus heading to Bangkok.
Mr Marosati had fled a durian plantation in Makham district, Chanthaburi where he worked as a casual labourer after stealing a gold necklace and bracelet from a Cambodian co-worker, identified as Phan, and making off on his boss’s motorcycle.
He stopped the bike in front of a local’s house where he persuaded the occupants to give him a ride into Muang district. There, he sold the gold necklace for 13,000 baht, put the bracelet on his wrist for safekeeping and bought a minibus…
