NARATHIWAT, Nov 22 – Fifty pangolins, also called ‘scaly anteaters’ and a protected wildlife species, bound for China were intercepted by the Thai authorities on Tuesday morning in this southern border province. Four local men were arrested at a road checkpoint in the provincial seat while driving a pick-up truck carrying 50 of the endangered […]
Sattahip Police arrested an entire family in East Pattaya in the early hours of Monday, accused of selling class 1 drugs. Officers from the station, which is situated outside of Pattaya, received information of the illegal family-run business and set up a covert operation which resulted in the arrest of several family members. Read more: […]
Former Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has been arrested in her hospital room on electoral fraud charges, the latest in a high-profile case heightened by the former leader’s attempt to leave the country for medical treatment. A Philippine official who served Ms. Arroyo with an arrest warrant Friday said the former leader would be permitted to […]
A Philippine regional court has issued an arrest warrant for former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, on charges of election fraud. This came hours after the Philippine Supreme Court found — for the second time this week — that the government could not prohibit her from leaving the country, because no charges had been filed […]
A man of British and Thai dual Nationality was arrested at a Police Checkpoint in South Pattaya in the early hours of Saturday. The checkpoint was situated inside Soi 17 in front of the Land Department Office and resulted in the arrest of 14 people. Mr. D. H. L. aged 30 was caught with a […]
Pattaya Immigration arrested a German bar owner on Thursday who is wanted in Germany on charges of Fraud. Officers arrested Mr. Jens Arno Holger Treutel aged 41 at the Crazy Pub in South Pattaya following information received from the German Embassy in Bangkok confirming a warrant issued by the Courts in Hamburg, Germany. Read more: […]
46 illegal immigrants were caught by Pattaya Immigration officers in the early hours of Wednesday. Initially Police were called to the location by an informant who claimed an illegal gambling event was taking place. No evidence of gambling was seen, however officers spotted a number of people running away from the location and realized they […]
The British President of a Rotary Club in Thailand has reportedly been detained and had his passport confiscated after being accused of swindling foreign property investors out of millions of pounds. Richard Haughton, 63, a former Tupperware salesman, from Birmingham, was cautioned by officers of the Department of Special Investigation from Chonburi and then released. […]
