PUBLISHED : 22 Jan 2026 at 10:01
A visitor was caught on CCTV stealing cash from the cashier’s drawer at a spa in Phuket on Tuesday. (Photo supplied by police)
PHUKET - Police arrested a German man for stealing cash from a spa on this tourist island after he revisited the business to return the money.
The visitor was apprehended at the spa on Ranong Road in Muang district on Wednesday night. He had gone there to apologise for the crime and return 2,000 baht in cash and two pairs of slippers stolen the day before.
Spa staff rejected the return of the stolen cash and slippers and called police instead.
The 25-year-old German man cried and told police that he and his friends had committed the crime out of boldness.
Police at the Muang Phuket station said that on Tuesday spa staf…
PUBLISHED : 22 Jan 2026 at 10:01
A visitor was caught on CCTV stealing cash from the cashier’s drawer at a spa in Phuket on Tuesday. (Photo supplied by police)
PHUKET - Police arrested a German man for stealing cash from a spa on this tourist island after he revisited the business to return the money.
The visitor was apprehended at the spa on Ranong Road in Muang district on Wednesday night. He had gone there to apologise for the crime and return 2,000 baht in cash and two pairs of slippers stolen the day before.
Spa staff rejected the return of the stolen cash and slippers and called police instead.
The 25-year-old German man cried and told police that he and his friends had committed the crime out of boldness.
Police at the Muang Phuket station said that on Tuesday spa staff complained that a foreign client had stolen the cash from a drawer when the cashier was away. The crime was caught by the CCTV system at the business.