BANGKOK, Jan 14 — An American with an outstanding arrest warrant in the United States in a US$93 million fraud case was arrested in Bangkok Friday after fleeing to live in Thailand for two years, according to the Metropolitan Police Bureau Division 7 in Bangkok. Richard Earl Saunder, 63, was arrested at Niran Condominium 4 […]
Two of the seven Thais arrested by Cambodia for illegal entry – Democrat Party MP Panich Vikitsreth and Narumol Jitrawarattana – have been released on bail by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, Chavanond Intarakomalyasut said on Thursday. Mr Chavanond, secretary to Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya, said the two were each released on 10,000 baht bail […]
An underage driver involved in a tollway crash last month which killed nine van passengers has been released without bail, because she turned herself in to police and had not been arrested – a condition for leniency under the juvenile procedural law. Head of the Department of Juvenile Observation and Protection Thawatchai Thaikheo played down […]
A foreigner was arrested at the Sa Kaeo immigration checkpoint Monday for carrying a fake passport. The passport identified the man as Christian Alphonse, 35, Guinean. Officials, however, found the passport was forged. The Guinea embassy also denied issuing this passport. The suspect has now been detained. He admitted paying Bt8,000 for the fake passport […]
The Bangkok Post reported today that the former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra offered to help the seven Thai nationals currently being detained in Cambodia. Among those arrested for trespassing in Banteay Meanchey province, a Democrat member of parliament for Bangkok, Panich Vikitsreth, told Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday that he had “unintentionally” crossed into […]
The parents of a 28-year-old woman from Bacolod City who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Thailand asked government officials on Friday to help their daughter. Nede and Florentino Talaban appealed to Bacolod City and Negros Occidental officials to help them seek the release of their daughter Flory May. “We are helpless and clueless on […]
Thai police have launched major drug crackdown operations in several provinces throughout the country. Many suspects have been arrested, and a large quantity of narcotics has been seized. In Tak Province, Chief District Officer of Mae Sot, Kitisak Tomornsak, signaled law enforcement officials to launch a major drug crackdown operation in the province, based on […]
BANGKOK, Jan 6 — Two Romanian suspects were detained in the Thai capital for alleged involvement in a transnational counterfeit electronic ATM card syndicate, Central Investigation Bureau deputy chief Pol Maj Gen Panya Mamen told at a press briefing on Thursday. Vint Danail, 25 and Roatis Sergiu Virgil, 24, were apprehended in Yaowarat, Bangkok’s Chinatown, […]
