Two arrested for allegedly robbing Chinese teenager in Pattaya
Pattaya police have arrested two men, one Thai and one Cambodian, for allegedly assaulting and robbing a Chinese student in the seaside city on Sunday night.
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.
Pol Lt-General Jitti Rodbangyang, commissioner of the Provincial Police Bureau 2, told the press conference that police had checked CCTV footage and traced the pickup to arrest the two at a rented house.
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.
They had tried to snatch her handbag but she had held on to it so one of the two had hit her on the head with a baton, Jitti said.
