At around 2:30 pm on January 3, while Huynh Duc Thiet, 32, from Vinasun Taxi Company was wandering around 23/9 Park area to look for passengers, he suddenly saw a man on a motorbike snatch a female Dutch tourist’s mobile phone and then run away. 

The thief at the police station 

Guessing that the robber would run to Nguyen Trai Street, the driver waited ahead for him at the junction with Nguyen Trai-Ton That Tung. As the thief neared Thiet quickly drove his taxi to block him, causing him to fall. 

Following Thiet’s call for help, the police who were patrolling the area detained the thief. 

At the police station, Pham Ngoc Duc, 34, said he robbed iPhone to sell while the female tourist was waiting for a taxi. 

On the afternoon of January 3, the police returned the mobile phone for the Dutch tourist, Hoencamp Wietske.