PHUKET: Long-time Phuket expat and police volunteer Lars-Goran Dikander has died, aged 66. Lars – also known as Colin – helped Phuket police out with many high profile cases, including when Norwegian Stein Dokset was charged with murder. Read more: thephuketnews.com By Claire Connell The Phuket News
PHUKET: A 26-year-old Syrian man was arrested yesterday afternoon (June 23) on Mae Luan Rd in Phuket Town when it was found he had no passport. Immigration officers were checking parts of the town when they spotted a man “looking suspicious”. Read more: thephuketnews.com
PHUKET: A British expat survived a spectacular crash early this morning when his smashed his car heading towards Phuket Town at high speed into a power just south of the Heroines Monument. Arran Pritchard, 43, was thrown out of the vehicle by the impact at 4:50am and was found lying unconscious in the road with […]
NEWARK, New Jersey – A Ukrainian man who fought extradition for three years from his Thai jail cell has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for running a network of websites that catered to paedophiles around the world. Authorities believe Maksym Shynkarenko, now 35, was “the most significant distributor of child pornography ever prosecuted […]
PHUKET: “Mafia” taxi drivers in Patong and at Phuket International Airport are still being targeted, police said today (June 19). Officers are still going through evidence they have gathered but are confident they will be able to make arrests and seize the illegal assets of “mafia” drivers. Read more: thephuketnews.com
PHUKET: Representatives from eight countries gathered at the Holiday Inn Resort in Patong this morning (June 17) for a four-day conference on preventing chemical attacks and bombings by terrorists. Also at the meeting were members of the Thai Police Foreign Affairs Division, along with representatives from Interpol. Pol Lt Gen Panya Mamen, Commissioner of Police […]
PHUKET – An Australian national has been arrested with crystal methamphetamine at his apartment in Katu district. Tourist police apprehended Mark Robert Coutelas at Green Mango Apartment on Wednesday night with four bags of the drug weighing 2.45 grammes. Read more: Bangkok Post BANGKOK POST
PHUKET: Two men fled with B815,938 in cash after robbing two female employees from a Shell gas station at gunpoint as they arrived at the Tesco Lotus carpark this morning (June 11) to transfer the cash to a bank account. Read more: thephuketnews.com
