Two former hotel cleaners have been arrested for the theft of cash and gold from a hotel guest's room in Pattaya five years ago.
The two women had previously worked as cleaners at a hotel in Bang Lamung district and were wanted for theft, police said.
They allegedly used their cleaner's keycard to enter a room after the guest went to breakfast in September 2017, and stole a three-baht weight gold necklace with a gold-plated amulet and some cash.
After examining CCTV footage Pattaya police obtained warrants for their arrest. By then, the two women had fled.
They were finally traced to Ayutthaya and Samut Prakan provinces and arrested five years later.
During questioning, they said they sold the stolen gold necklace for 60,000 baht, and one of them kept the stolen amulet.
