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Drug-crazed jobless man held for slashing delivery woman
AN unemployed man who was high on drugs when he was arrested today (Dec. 14) for slashing of the arm of a GrabFood delivery woman in Udon Thani province last Saturday confessed to having done so to vent his anger after being cheated by an online company which did not send the goods he had …
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One of two royal motorcade suspects arrested
ONE of two political activists wanted on the charges of intending to harm Her Majesty the Queen’s liberty during the demonstration on Wednesday Oct. 14 has been arrested by Ladprao police, Sanook.com quoted TV Channel 8 as saying this morning (Oct. 16, 2020). Mr. Ekachai Hongkangwan was arrested while travelling to surrender at Dusit police …
Ex-wife arrested for killing former husband’s new girlfriend
THE WOMAN who shot dead her former husband’s new girlfriend and also injured him in Lampang province early Sunday morning has now been arrested and has confessed to the crime, Sanook.com reported this afternoon (Oct. 14, 2020). Ms. Niranuch Okwang, 50, was arrested in neighbouring Phayao province after an informer told police that he saw …
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Two held for smuggling marijuana from Thailand to Myanmar
POLICE are moving to arrest other members of a marijuana trafficking gang after two of them, both Myanmar nationals, were arrested at Mae Sot border town in possession of two lots of the drug totaling 360 kilogrammes which was being taken across the border to the neighbouring country, Thai Rath newspaper reported today (October 6, …
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Gold shop robbery suspect nabbed while trying to flee to Laos
POLICE have arrested a suspect in the heist of 221 baht weight gold jewellery worth 6.5 million baht from a gold shop at Tesco Lotus Wang Hin branch in northeastern Loei province just as he was about to cross the border to Laos via natural routes, Thai Rath newspaper reported this afternoon (Sept. 29, 2020). …
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Karen man arrested after beheading girlfriend
A YOUNG Karen man with a 20,000 baht bounty offered for his capture for beheading his girlfriend and removing her heart was caught today (Sept. 18) after a massive hunt near the Thai-Myanmar border in Tak province, Thai Rath newspaper reported. The shocking murder of Ms. Ann, 17, at her house in Mae Ramat district …
Nigerian romance scammers arrested in Phuket
POLICE at Phuket’s popular Patong beach arrested two Nigerian men on the charges of fleecing several women who they had ensnared with their romance trap and also overstaying in this country, Khaosod newspaper reported today (Sept. 13, 2020). The two men, aged 21 and 19, were arrested in their hotel room at this beach after …
#SaveParit zooms in social media after Penguin’s arrest
THE #SaveParit hashtag is going viral on Thai social media after Mr. Parit Chivarak, or Penguin, a political activist, was arrested by police at 4.20 p.m. just as he was going to attend a rally at Nonthaburi pier, Sanook.com reported today (August 14, 2020). Police showed him a Criminal Court arrest warrant number 1172/2563 with …
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Free People followers again gather at court to support arrested activists
MEMBERS of the Free People group, which grew out of the Free Youth group, showed up in large numbers at the Ratchadapisek Criminal Court this morning (August 8) to give their two arrested leaders support when they were brought in again for the court to consider holding them in pre-trial detention after the refusal to …
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Police arrest 2 Democracy Monument rally leaders
TWO leaders of the July 18 rally at the Democracy Monument were arrested by Samranrat Metropolitan Police under warrants issued by the Criminal Court today (August 7), INN News reported. One of the charges filed against the two men, Mr. Panupong Chadnok and Mr. Anon Nampha, is the appearing in public to create confusion and …
Influential municipal councillor’s son held on drug charge
ARRESTED together with an accomplice at 2 p.m. today (August 1) was the son of a well-known Ubon Ratchathani municipal councillor on drug trafficking charges after a total of 72,000 tablets of methamphetamine (Speed) was found in their possession, Naewna newspaper reported. The Border Patrol Police Unit 227 together with police and soldiers from various …
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American charged with defrauding Thai investor
ARRESTED and charged with swindling a Thai investor is an American man who was tracked down to a hotel in Watthana district where he was hiding, INN News reported today (July 22, 2020). Pol.Lt.Gen. Sompong Chingduong, head of the Immigration Bureau, together with officers from the Special Crime Operation Sub-division told the Press that the …
Chinese gamblers nabbed in Pattaya raid
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NINE CHINESE nationals were arrested on emergency rule-breaking and gambling charges in Pattaya last night, police said. The police raided a house in Jomtien area of the beach resort city and rounded up the poker-playing Chinese males, aged between 30 and 42 years. The Chinese nationals were charged with breaking emergency …
Over a hundred teen street racers busted
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A LARGE HORDE of young motorcyclists was rounded up last night (June 20) in Nonthaburi – the first roundup of a kind since curfew was lifted nationwide last week, police said. A total of 102 adolescents were rounded up and 97 motorcycles seized at about 03.00 a.m. on Kanchanaphisek Road and …
Police smash network laundering B200 billion drug money
IN A nationwide operation police broke up a major drug trafficking network which was working on laundering 200 billion baht with 300 suspected arrested including gold shop and oil business owners, INN News report this afternoon (June 19). Seized in this operation was a total of 700,000 tablets of methamphetamine (Speed) and around five kilogrammes …
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Chinese, Myanmar and Thai online gamblers nabbed at border town
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A LARGE HORDE OF 180 Chinese, Myanmar and Thai nationals were arrested yesterday (June 17) on charges of gambling online at a newly-built hotel in the Thai-Myanmar border district of Mae Sot, police said. The police and other authorities raided the hotel in downtown Mae Sot, arrested the 180 suspected gamblers …
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Swedish man facing B100 million civil case caught in Chiang Mai
A SWEDISH man who fled a civil court case filed by a South Korean man who is claiming 100 million baht damages for a genital injury that occurred during a tandem paramotor ride in Chiang Mai was captured in this northern city today (June 17), Naewna newspaper reported. Immigration Bureau chief Pol Lt Gen Sompong …
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Fake cop nabbed for swindling people via Line app
A YOUNG man was arrested today (June 16) for pretending to be the Commander of Crime Suppression Division (CSD) to defraud the public by claiming he would speed up cases, INN News reported this afternoon. Pol Col Montri Thetkhan, CSD’s deputy commander, said division commander Pol Maj Gen Jiraphop Phuridet had filed complaints against the …
Laotians rounded up for illegal entry
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FIVE LAOTIANS were yesterday arrested in Nakhon Phanom on charges of illegal entry into Thai territory, an immigration official said today (June 9, 2020) The four males and one female from Laos illegally slipped across Mekong River into the northeastern province and were allegedly trafficked on the road to a fruit …
Convenience store manager held for selling drugs
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE WOMAN MANAGER of a 7-11 convenience store in Pattani was yesterday (June 6) arrested under suspicion of doing an unlikely business besides dealing in groceries – distributing speed pills. Police arrested Chanida Chanthudom at one of the 7-11s in the southern province and seized 110 speed pills in her alleged …
Nigerian, Myanmar romance scammers nabbed
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FOUR NIGERIAN males and a Myanmar male were arrested today on online romance scamming charges in Hua Hin, police said. The police who acted on tip-offs to the faux romance scams arrested the Nigerian and Myanmar nationals who had allegedly preyed on Thai females, seeking to develop intimate relationships with well-to-do …