The arrest of Chaiyut Changsong, 26, and his Cambodian friend Hi Song Tai, 32, was announced at a press conference at 10am on Thursday at the Pattaya police station. The two were charged with knocking La Chu Han, 18, unconscious on the side of the road behind the LK Grand Living Place hotel in South Pattaya on Sunday night. They then allegedly fled in a white pickup truck with her handbag. Jitti said the two worked as security officers at a company in Pattaya and had put a fake licence plate on their pickup. The two men allegedly had waited at the scene for a likely victim before robbing the Chinese teenager.

Source: The Nation Bangkok July 27, 2017 07:36 UTC