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Street dogs taken care of by a Buddhist temple in Chiang Mai’s Muang district prevented an immigrant from allegedly stealing donations to the temple on Tuesday morning.

Wails of help heard in a market in Nakhon Ratchasima at about 8pm on Saturday led to the sight of a helpless teenager hanging from the ceiling.

The Railway Police Division arrested a 51-year-old man, Manus (last name withheld), in Phrae on Tuesday for allegedly stealing rail track screws and plates.

In an incident reminiscent of the Hollywood thriller “Catch Me If You Can”, a man made off with a handbag in Nakhon Ratchasima and then called back to say nobody could catch him.

Thung Luang station police arrested one Chaiphat, or Jack (last name withheld), aged 46, at a house in the subdistrict in Ratchaburi’s Pak Thor district for stealing women’s underwear.

A 78-year-old monk in Phayao province has found himself in trouble for stealing money donated for temple repairs.

Holding valuable artworks can be a liability for public museums, especially in times of crisis. The risks have been brought home by the overnight theft of a painting by Vincent van Gogh, "The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884," from the Singer Laren museum, a small museum east of Amsterdam.

An American citizen, 29, reported to officers at Yannawa Police Station today (February 11) the theft by a woman of a “Cannon” camera and three camera lens at his house in Bangrak district. 

A recently-freed jailbird allegedly committed another crime in Chon Buri’s Sattahip district just two hours after his release on Thursday in order to be sent back to his “home” where food, accommodation and comrades await him.

The Southern Bangkok Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for a Bangkok cabbie who allegedly stole valuables worth Bt3.6 million from a Chinese businessman in the early morning of September 1.

A Chinese passenger was arrested early Tuesday for hanging on to a bag containing cash and a mobile phone that had been dropped by an Iranian passenger, police said.