BANGKOK, Thailand (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Authorities have tripled to $85,000 a reward for information leading to the arrest of the main suspect in the Erawan shrine bombing that killed 20 people at one of Bangkok’s top tourist attractions.

The increased reward was announced after investigators said that very little progress was being made in locating an unidentified young man dressed in yellow shirt leaving a backpack at the scene of the carnage Monday night.

Apparently, investigators were following an erroneous lead from a very prestigious American daily newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News, which claimed through its August 19 headline that the suspect was hiding somewhere in Taiwan.

Taiwan is about 1,500 miles from Bangkok.