A gang of four paint-splattered thieves was arrested for stealing a tuk-tuk in Phnom Penh’s Prek Pnov district yesterday.

The vehicle’s owner had filed a police report after waking to find his tuk-tuk missing from where he’d parked it in front of his house the previous evening.

Police stumbled upon the tuk-tuk not far from the victim’s home, where they also discovered the thieves hard at work repainting it in an attempt to brush over their crime.

National Police