A gas station cashier used a faux gun he bought on-line for ninety nine baht in an attempted theft of a Kasikorn Bank brank in Kalasin province in northeast Thailand on Monday. Upon arrest, he informed police that he was making an attempt to win back the 300,000 baht which he stole from his workplace and gambled all away.
At 4.30pm, officers at Mueang Kalasin Police Station were informed that a man was using a gun to carry up a financial institution inside the Big C Department Store. Don’t worry tackled and detained the thief, 25 year outdated Yothin Khotwong, before he managed to steal any money.
During interrogation, Yothin told the police that he works as a cashier at a gas station in the Mueang Kalasin district. He mentioned that he repeatedly used the gas station’s cash to gamble on-line till he lost 300,000 baht, reported ThaiRath.
He informed the police that he needed to return all the money to the gasoline station’s account so he thought he would order a pretend gun online and use it in a financial institution heist.
Yothin carried the ninety nine baht gun into Big C, walked into the financial institution, and threatened a customer utilizing the bank’s companies with the gun.
“Give me 1 million baht and I won’t do anything,” Yothin mentioned to the customer at pretend gunpoint. Moments later he was pinned down by security guards who confiscated his “firearm.”
Big C security guard, fifty five yr outdated Mongkol Phuying, said that he was on duty when he noticed the assailant strolling into the bank. At that time, there have been two customers contained in the financial institution, mentioned Mongkol.
As quickly as the thief demanded 1 million baht from the customer, Mongkol stated that he knew the gun wasn’t real. The security guard mentioned he is skilled to spot faux guns and that the thief’s behaviour gave it away. Mongkol described Yothin’s posture as “not scary.”
Trusting his abilities, Mongkol leapt into action and captured the thief with the assistance of a male customer whereas the financial institution employees pressed the alarm and rang 191..