Australian held for 'robbing' bank for his flight home
An Australian national was arrested yesterday after allegedly robbing a bank with a fake gun in Bangkok's Phaya Thai district. He managed to get away away with Bt158,000 after an alleged 12-second hold-up at a Thanachart Bank branch. But was captured sho
The 23-year-old Ice cream shop assistant, Zachary Adrian Cronin, was presented to the press with the cash, a mask, a fake gun and sunglasses. He was then made to re-enact the crime at six locations.
Cronin claimed that he has been in Thailand for a month and had spent all the Bt100,000 he had, so he planned to rob the bank so he could buy a ticket home. Apparently he had been scouting the bank two days before the robbery.
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