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A security camera has captured a man on a motorbike approaching a group of children playing in front of a house in Tan Phu District around 10 a.m. last Sunday, stopping, checking around, grabbing a boy, and snatching his bracelet before quickly driving away.
The entire incident takes just around 20 seconds.
Tran Hong Phat snatches the golden bracelet of a boy as captured by security camera on December 18, 2022.
Police investigated and identified the man as Tran Hong Phat, 29, a native from Mekong Delta's Can Tho City.
On Monday night they found him driving along a street in Binh Tan District and took him in.
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Tran Hong Phat at the police station in HCMC, December 19, 2022. Photo by VnExpress/Nhat Vy |
He confessed to stealing the bracelet since he was a drug addict and direly needed money, the police said.
He also told them he had stolen a smartphone from a seven-year-old girl in Tan Phu District two weeks earlier.
He was wearing a Gojek coat and a Grab helmet, but police found it was just a disguise, that he does not work for the firms and is currently jobless.
