Yesterday at 8pm, police announced the arrest of a man and a woman who were suspected of robbing the house of a former Supreme Court judge.
Police busted 56-year-old Sophon Pansak and 53-year-old Yupha Trudtrakul at the pair’s home in Kanchanaburi Province. Police said that Sophon and Yupha had served as maids at the house of Chongsup Thiangtham on Soi Charansanitwong 37 in the Bangkok Noi District, beginning in 2009.
After the pair quit their jobs in 2011 and moved back to their hometown, Chongsup – the brother of former Transportation Minister Chongchai Thiangtham – noticed that many of his personal belongings were missing. The total value of all the stolen objects reportedly exceeded THB3 million.
Sophon and Yupha confessed the crime, saying that they drugged Chongsup with sleeping pills before stealing jewelry and cash from his house. They sold the luxury items in order to buy a car and build the house where police eventually found them and took them into custody.
Dailynews wrote that the duo would be handed over to the Bang Khun Non police for further interrogation.
