Smash and grab frenzy alarms inner-city police
Gangs targetting cars in well-off areas make off with goods worth millions of baht a monthPublished: 30/05/2011 at 12:00 AM
Bangkok Post: Newspaper section: News An epidemic of car break-ins is alarming police in the inner city.As many as seven gangs, all of them connected, are thought to be breaking into high-value cars parked in inner Bangkok, and robbing them of their valuables.
The problem has become so bad that restaurants in well-off suburbs such as Ekkamai and Thong Lor, where many of the thefts have occurred, now place signs in their windows warning patrons that smash-and-grabs from cars parked in the areas was rampant and not to leave valuables in their vehicles.
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