Pattaya police arrested 100 beach roaming hookers charged pestering people in public areas to buy their sexual services. The police arrested and fined them each 100 THB then warned before releasing them. In addition, the police caught 8 dice gamblers on the same day. PATTAYA – February 29,2012 [PDN]; Pol.Lt.Col. Kittitat Kanchai, Crime Control Inspector […]
Provincial Police Bureau 3 arrested the leader of a gang they believed robbed a guitar shop in Sri Racha District in Chonburi Province and escaped to Nakhon Ratchasima Province. Police arrested 37-year-old Chirawat Chuangchot, one of the suspects who allegedly robbed the Deluxe Music guitar shop in the center of Sri Racha District in Chonburi […]
CHON BURI, March 1 – Police in Thailand seized pirated goods in the seaside resort town of Pattaya, worth some Bt15 million, according to the Department of Special Investigation (DSI). Five persons looking after the merchandise were detained, among them a Nepali woman. Authorities are questioning the detainees in order to locate the forgery ring. […]
PHUKET, March 1 – Thai police on Thursday detained a Norwegian man for killing his Thai wife and hiding her corpse in his home in this southern resort island for nearly three years. Stein Harvard Dokset, 50, a former Norwegian physician, was taken to his home in the Phuket provincial seat for a re-enactment after […]
Thai police, accompanied by US drug enforcement officers, arrested 12 Africans on charges of drug dealing and seized crystal methamphetamine pills and five kilogrammes of marijuana in a joint operation in Bangkok on Wednesday morning, police said. None of the suspects had current visas, and some could not produce passports, police said. Read more: Bangkok […]
Thai police and US anti-drug officials raided a suspected hideout of foreign drug dealers at an apartment in the Ladprao area and seized five kilograms of marijuana sticks along with some ice pills. Two suspects were arrested, one of whom broke his leg while fleeing. Some 50 narcotics suppression and immigration police, along with US […]
BANGKOK, Feb 29 – The Thai authorities have identified two additional suspects who may have been involved with Bangkok’s Valentine’s Day blasts on Sukhumvit Soi 71, after re-examining closed-circuit television footage and evidence collected. In consequence police are seeking court-sanctioned arrest warrants for them. Pol Gen Pansiri Prapawat, deputy national police chief overseeing the case, […]
BANGKOK, Feb 27 – Thailand’s national police chief Pol Gen Prewpan Dhamapong said on Monday that the Malaysian authorities have extended the extradition procedures for a detained Iranian allegedly involved with the Bangkok blasts as time is needed to complete legal matters. The police chief made his remarks following Thailand’s move to seek the extradition […]
