Thai police don lion dance costume to pounce on unsuspecting burglar

2026-02-19 - 11:55

Thai police donned a lion dance costume during this week’s Lunar New Year festivities to arrest a suspect accused of stealing about US$64,000 worth of Buddhist artefacts, police said Thursday. Officers dressed as a red-and-yellow lion made the arrest on Wednesday evening after receiving a report from a police superintendent earlier this month that his home in the suburbs of the capital, Bangkok, had been broken into. Bangkok police said the reported break-in involved “numerous Buddhist objects...