A young college student from Sriracha Technical School was driving along Sukhumvit Road to meet a friend in Sattahip district. As he was stood at a set of traffic lights near South Pattaya a couple of motorcycles pulled up alongside him. The bikes had three men and three women on them. Tow of the men hopped off and got on the back of his motorcycle. One of them pushed a gun in his back and ordered him to drive on.
They directed him to a deserted soi and then relieved him of his iPhone 4 mobile phone, 1,800 Baht in cash and left him stranded as they rode off on his motorcycle. Khun Permpon aged 19 made his own way to the police station to report the highway robbery. He was able to give descriptions of the robbers all about 20 years old and descriptions of the motorcycles they were riding.
Police technical officers were able to get a GPS ping from the stolen phone somewhere in the Jomtien Beach area before the signal stopped obviously the phone had been turned off. They are hoping the phone may be turned on again sometime soon meanwhile they are examining images from CCTV cameras in the area that may give them more leads as to their identities.
