PHUKET: Police all over Phuket are hunting a topless tattooed man who threatened a woman with a tomahawk as he stole her motorcycle this afternoon.
The man is dangerous and armed and should not be approached, officers warned.
Coffee shop worker Oranee Chaisiri was forced to hand over her pink Fino by a man waving a tomahawk as she pulled up for lunch at a noodle stall in the Phuket City suburb of Samkong soon after noon.
The tattooed tomahawk man rode off towards Bangkok Hospital Phuket down Hongyok-U-Tit Road.
Police from Cherng Talay in north-central Phuket spotted a pickup that looked suspicious in Samkong today.
At the same time, suspect Tossaporn Jenrob spotted the police and took flight in just his jeans, leaving behind his flip-flops in the street and his shirt and a rainbow Bob Marley beanie in his pickup.
The Cherng Talay police called in Phuket City reinforcements and a Phuketwide alert was quickly issued.
On Thursday night at a Cherng Talay checkpoint near the police station in central Phuket, officers fired two shots at the Pichit-registered pickup as it sped past their barrier.
One shot hit a tyre, the other pierced the chassis near the windscreen. The bullet hole had been covered with tape when police encountered the pickup today.
Officers suspect Khun Tossaporn, a second-hand dealer, of peddling drugs and now are also keen to question him about his threatening behavior.
Two ya bah methamphetamine tablets were found in the pickup when police searched it back at Phuket City Police Station.
The man is dangerous and armed and should not be approached, officers warned.
Coffee shop worker Oranee Chaisiri was forced to hand over her pink Fino by a man waving a tomahawk as she pulled up for lunch at a noodle stall in the Phuket City suburb of Samkong soon after noon.
The tattooed tomahawk man rode off towards Bangkok Hospital Phuket down Hongyok-U-Tit Road.
Police from Cherng Talay in north-central Phuket spotted a pickup that looked suspicious in Samkong today.
At the same time, suspect Tossaporn Jenrob spotted the police and took flight in just his jeans, leaving behind his flip-flops in the street and his shirt and a rainbow Bob Marley beanie in his pickup.
The Cherng Talay police called in Phuket City reinforcements and a Phuketwide alert was quickly issued.
On Thursday night at a Cherng Talay checkpoint near the police station in central Phuket, officers fired two shots at the Pichit-registered pickup as it sped past their barrier.
One shot hit a tyre, the other pierced the chassis near the windscreen. The bullet hole had been covered with tape when police encountered the pickup today.
Officers suspect Khun Tossaporn, a second-hand dealer, of peddling drugs and now are also keen to question him about his threatening behavior.
Two ya bah methamphetamine tablets were found in the pickup when police searched it back at Phuket City Police Station.
Are you sure you don't mean a Hand Axe?
I think Tomahawks are a Native American item, unless the robber is of course cultured.
Posted by Tbs on May 6, 2013 13:30
Editor Comment:
The word tomahawk accurately described the small hand axe we believe he was carrying, although witnesses sometimes confuse axes, choppers and machetes. An axe is usually larger and made for two hands, or the word could even these days describe a guitar.