Alleged Swedish armed
robber Bo Peter Soderback and his girlfriend Wannapa Singprakon are
apprehended at their Third Road apartment.
Boonlua Chatree
A Swedish man arrested for allegedly throwing drug
parties in his Pattaya apartment turned out to be a fugitive wanted in
Scandinavia for two daring armed robberies.
Bo Peter Soderback, 40, and Wannapa Singprakon, 25,
his girlfriend were apprehended by Children and Women Rights Protection
and Anti-Human Trafficking Region 2 police at the X5 Apartments on Third
Road May 21.
The arrest came after complaints to the CWRP office
that the Swede and his Thai girlfriend often play loud music late at
night and allegedly abuse drugs. Both were caught using crystal
methamphetamine at the time of arrest.
Only after the arrest did police realize who they
had. Soderback is wanted for allegedly taking part in a 2008 armored car
robbery in Denmark where thieves made off with more than the equivalent
of 300 million baht. He is also suspected robbing Swedish security firm
G4S using a helicopter and making off with the equivalent of hundreds of
millions of baht in cash.
Found to be using fake British and Swedish passports,
Soderback admitted he has been living in Pattaya for more than a year.
He was charged with using drugs, holding fake
passports and entering the kingdom without permission and proper travel
documents.
