SURAT THANI: An air force officer has been arrested after 600,000 speed pills and 6kg of crystal methamphetamine worth over 80 million baht were found hidden inside his pickup truck which crashed into a tree in Tha Chana district on Thursday evening. Flt Lt Thiwa Saimoon, 50, attached to the Weapon Production Centre in Lop […]Read More
A police motorcycle chasing a car hit a pedestrian in Phetchaburi province early Sunday, killing one police officer and injuring another and the pedestrian. Pol Corporal Paitoon Chujit died at the scene of the accident, while Pol Senior Sgt-Major Siriphan Suamsiri broke both his arms and the pedestrian, Luca Sukprasert, 22, suffered serious head injuries. […]Read More
KRABI — A combined task force of security officers and Muslim clerics yesterday raided the home of a 62-year-old man in Krabi who decreed himself the new prophet of Islam. Meed Mamart was given a stern lecture Saturday to stop his blasphemous actions, and his heretical writings were burned for good measure, the clerics said, […]Read More
The police officer who drew flaks from netizens for shooting dead a dog and injuring another turned himself in to his boss today (Monday) and admitted that he did shoot the dogs out of a fit of anger for biting his wife and kids. The shooting took place at a police apartment on Vibhavadi Rangsit […]Read More
Three security officers were wounded, one seriously, in separate bomb and grenade attacks in the troubled southern provinces of Pattani and Yala on Friday night and Saturday morning. In Pattani, a roadside bomb went off in tambon Bang Khao in Nong Chik district as an eight-member police team travelling on a motorcycle and a pickup […]Read More
A police officer suspected of raping a Lao woman killed two higher-ranked officers at Pluak Daeng police station in Rayong before being shot dead by a colleague Monday afternoon. The shooting happened at 3.15pm as Pol Sen Sgt Maj Shinkrit Phutthipraphas was brought to see Pol Col Somchai Soonthornwanich, chief of the Pluak Daeng station, […]Read More
BANGKOK — Eighteen police officers in the capital and six immigration officers in the northeast of Thailand have been transferred to inactive posts for alleged wrongdoing related to the deadly bombing of the Erawan Shrine earlier this month. The 18 cops were transferred to inactive posts for falsely claiming they had thoroughly searched jurisdictions where […]Read More
PHUKET: A Srisoonthon village headman filed a formal complaint to Phuket Governor Nisit Jansomwong yesterday (July 1) alleging that two men acting as police came to his office on Monday (June 29) and carried out a search. At 4pm yesterday, Amnoyporn Samneing, village headman of Moo 6 in Srisoonthon and his assistant Chaermpon Kerdsap went […]Read More
