Category: Crime
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Wife’s Smart Phone Obsession Leads To Her Murder
Trouble started in the home of an Ang Thong man when he bought his wife a smartphone last month. According to the husband of Usa Masiri, 34, she stopped looking after their four children and would not help with any work. All she did was stare at the screen all day long, said Tossaporn Khongmuang.…
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Thai Maid Steals Valuables Worth 500,000 bht From American Tourist
A Thai woman has confessed to stealing valuables worth almost 500,000 baht from an American tourist in Pattaya. Pimsiri Boonchu, 26, was working as a maid at the Vogue Hotel in Pattaya Klang when she committed the theft earlier this month. American Tracy Nguyen, 48, told police how she had put the ‘do not disturb’…
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Hunt Is On For Chiang Mai Woman After Drugged And Robbed Tourist Dies
Chiang Mai police are hunting for a “pretty, short-haired” woman who allegedly drugged and robbed two tourists – an Indian and an American – and caused the death of one. Chiang Mai police deputy chief Pol Colonel Piyaphan Phattarapongsin called a meeting of investigators to try and solve the two related drugging cases. In the first…
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Three Army Privates Charged With Assault After Beating Up Colleague
Three army privates were this morning escorted by their superior to Lop Buri Muang district police station to acknowledge the charge of assault against one of their colleagues who is now unconscious at an army hospital in the province. The three alleged assailants reportedly admitted they attacked the victim, Pvt Kacha Pacha, because they disliked…
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Ex-Lawyer’s Girlfriend Gets Jail For Swindling Road Accident Victims
The Criminal Court has sentenced the girlfriend of an unethical ex-lawyer to jail for helping him swindle road-accident victims out of more than Bt4 million in compensation. Pornpawee Chukaew was slapped with a term of three years and four months and also ordered to pay about Bt2.3 million in compensation to victims – Porntip Chantharat…
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Koh Tao Cops Unaware of Reported Rape of British Tourist
Police on Wednesday cast doubt on a news report that a British woman was sexually assaulted on the popular tourist island of Koh Tao. According to Samui Times, the tourist was drugged and subsequently attacked on Sairee Beach near the same place two British backpackers were murdered in 2014. The assault reportedly took place June…
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Two Loan Sharks Face 430 Million Baht Fines In Back Income Taxes
Two major money lenders who charged exorbitant interest rates on loans they extended to their debtors and seized their assets after they defaulted are facing about 430 million baht in personal income taxes from the Revenue Department. Pol Lt-Col Wichai Suwanprasert, director of the information technology litigation division of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI),…
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Mentally Affected Assailants To Face Criminal Charges Despite Their “Illness”
Police have charged two “hot-headed” perpetrators in two separate assault cases despite their claims of suffering from serious illnesses. Phattra Boonchaliew, 63, who is reportedly suffering from Alzheimer’s, seriously injured a security officer when she crashed into him with her pickup truck at Chiang Mai International Airport on Monday at 4.15pm. She was initially charged…
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Talks Ongoing With Malaysia Over Arrest Of Thai Police Officers Amid Allegations Of Piracy
Thailand and Malaysia offered differing accounts of an incident off Satun province on Sunday, in which four Thais, including three police senior sergeant-majors, were arrested and accused of robbing Malaysian fishing boats. The four are now being detained in Langkawi, Malaysia. Pol Lt-General Ronnasin Pusara, a regional police commissioner overseeing the South, said he had…
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Bitcoin Scam Suspect Claims He Is Victim Too
Prasit Srisuwan, a major stock investor and suspect in the Bt800-million bitcoin scam, has denied any wrongdoing, and instead claimed to be one of the victims. Parinya Jaravichit, a leading suspect who faces criminal charges in this case, remains a fugitive with police saying he has fled to South Korea. Apart from Parinya and Prasit,…