Raywat “Bao” Kasirak of Phang Nga was arrested in the area in front of Phuket Vocational College in Tambon Talaad Yai, as a key suspect in a robbery committed the night before at the Poon Pon Night Plaza.
After searching the young man's residence off Luang Po Rd in Phuket Town, police seized a number of items as evidence, including two notebook computers, a Buddhist amulet necklace, a tablet computer, an iphone, a watch, a Samsung Hero smartphone and various items of clothing.
Police said that the suspect has confessed to committing a multitude of robberies in the past several weeks as follows:
In the coverage area of Mueang Phuket police, he allegedly robbed a home a home on June 17 at 11pm in the City Home estate in Rassada, followed by a robbery later that night at 12.30am (June 18) at a home on Tung Ka Rd in Talad Yai; a home in the Rock Garden estate in Moo 5 of Rassada on June 24 at 12.57am; in the late hours of June 25, four homes in the Nutkomol 7 estate in Moo 3 of Rassada, which inlcluded the theft of both property and B3,700 in cash and a home in the area of Ko Sireh bridge in Rassada on June 28.
As for robberies in Thalang, police pinned the suspect to a robbery at 12.05am on June 5 at a home in the Udom Suk estate in Moo 8 of Pa Klok and a robbery at a two-story row-housing complex near Cherng Talay school, where police say he snatched a black Acer notebook;
Police say he was also involved in a robbery around June 24 or 25 at a new housing estate across from the Bang Chak petrol station in Thung Thong, as well as a robbery of a paint store near Wat Chalong on June 22.
Aside from this, police say he was also involved in another break-and-enter robbery in Thalang, in which he stole a gold necklace and a white Toyota Fortuner, which he abandoned in Mueang district to evade police on his tail in hot pursuit.
From that robbery, police said the suspect had stole a gold necklace but already sold it to an undisclosed gold shop.