Kasemsun Boonsee, 28, of Bung Karn Province filed a police report this afternoon (November 29) that a burglar had broken into his two-storey home in the Lipon housing project of Si Sunthon's Moo 1, and stole B20,000.
Leading the investigation at the two-story home on Soi 1 of the government subsidized housing project, Pol Lt Suporn Muangkhai said: "Kasemsun reported that he had gone to the Ban Layan flea market earlier today and realized he'd been robbed upon returning home."
It appeared that a burglar had entered the house from a window on the second floor after removing glass window pains, said Pol Lt Suporn.
Mr Kasemsun reported that B20,000 in cash had gone missing from a plastic savings container kept ontop a cabinet, Pol Lt Suporn added.
"It appears that the window panes were removed from a window on the second floor, so we've collected finger prints which could lead us to the culprit," said Pol Lt Suporn.
The robbery is the latest in a series of thefts and burglaries throughout the north part of the island in recent weeks, including in Pak Klok, Thalang and Koh Kaew.
Yesterday, a Russian woman was reportedly knocked off her bike by two thieves who got away with a B24,000 Iphone and B400 in cash.
This morning, a helmeted thief riding a Yamaha Fino near Makro Thalang, reportedly made away with B3,000 in cash and a cheap Samsung smartphone that were inside a handbag that was snatched from a girl riding pillion on a Honda scooter on Thepkrasattri Rd near Makro early this morning.
Last week, residents at two houses reported burglaries at the Indie 2 estate in Koh Kaew, where a thief lifted a cheap mobile phone and B3,000 cash from one house, and more cash and a camera from another house, before a resident's dogs alerted security guards, who then took a photo of the suspected thief before he fled.
The Phuket News has since learned that that photo ultimately led to an arrest of a suspect and the camera had already been returned.