The mother of a backpacker murdered in an unsolved killing in Thailand 10 years ago has spoken of her long wait for justice for her daughter. Kirsty Jones, 23, from Tredomen, near Brecon, Powys was raped and strangled at a guesthouse on 10 August, 2000. Sue Jones says she will never give up the fight […]
Spanish woman arrested at Suvarnabhumi airport with 3kg of ice worth Bt9 million; en route from Ghana to Indonesia. MCOT Update: A Spanish woman was arrested at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport for smuggling 3.1 kilograms of ‘ice’ – crystal methamphetamine, police said Tuesday. Following a tip-off that a drug smuggler will pass through the airport, […]
BANGKOK, Aug 9 – Bangkok’s metropolitan police on Monday arrested an Iranian man in central Bangkok for possessing 10 kg of crystal methamphetamine, commonly known as “ice”, worth Bt30 million (US$930,000). Metropolitan Police chief Pol Lt-Gen Santan Chayanont said that Soltan Mohammadi Reza, 32, was arrested after police detective at Thonglor Police Station was tipped […]
Bangkok – Police said Monday they arrested two German university graduates as suspected members of an internet banking theft ring preying on Thai nationals. D. I., 22, and D. A., 23, both recent graduates from Munich University, were arrested in Pattaya beach resort over the weekend, said Police Colonel Suphisarn Pakdinarunart, acting commissioner of the […]
BANGKOK, Aug 6 – Thai police arrested a suspected murderer and a suspected paedophile in two separate cases after investigation a request by the British Embassy in Bangkok. The first case is involved with a British national, Stuart Scott Crawford, most wanted as the subject of an arrest warrant for murdering Michael Ryan in Surrey. […]
Two Malaysian men have been arrested for having allegedly used fake credit cards to shop at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport. Tourist Police Commander Pol Maj Gen Adisorn Ngarmjitsuksri told a press conference that Wong Choo weng and Mok Choy were arrested Thursday evening after they allegedly used fake credit cards to buy goods from shops […]
BANGKOK, Aug 3 – Four Iranian men in their twenties were arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport in separate crystal methamphetamine smuggling cases involving a total weight of 1.7 kilogrammes of the drug, valued at Bt6 million (some US$180,000), Customs Department Director-General Somchai Sajjapong told a press briefing on Tuesday. On Tuesday the drug was found in […]
Officers from the Child and Women Protection Unit recently obtained an arrest warrant for a 19 year old man who is accused of raping a 16 year old girl in April 2009 inside his friend’s rented room in the Lompok area in Banglamung. On Tuesday Morning the suspect, Khun Manop was located and arrested and […]
