Category: Crime
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More Than Five Years Jail For School Director For Lewd Acts With Teen Pupil, Rape Trial To Follow
A 51-year-old Nakhon Ratchasima school director, who is at the centre of a scandal of having an inappropriate intimate relationship with a 14-year-old pupil, was sentenced on Thursday to an immediate jail sentence of five years and two months for four charges linked to lewd acts committed with a minor under 15 and taking her…
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Jail For Man Who Smuggled Nearly 50,000 Tablets From Thailand Into Manchester
A sleeping pill smuggler found with a haul of almost 50,000 tablets he carried from Thailand to Manchester has been jailed. Anthony Rekia, 46, was stopped at Manchester Airport after a flight. The National Crime Agency (NCA), which managed the investigation, said he told Border Force officers who stopped him he had 600 cigarettes in…
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Attempted Rape As 18 Year-Old Pattaya Woman Is Tied Up And Super Glued In Her Own Home
Nong Prue police are investigating what has been called an evil crime on Tuesday. An eighteen year old woman was tied up with a phone charger as a man tried to rape her. After she resisted super glue was put in her eye and a phone was stolen, it was claimed. An uncle is one…
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Thai Man Shoots Young Neighbour Dead Because He Wouldn’t Turn Down The Music
Somboon, 38, was furious that his sleep was being disturbed by loud music coming from a pick-up parked next to his block of flats. So he went downstairs from his third floor room to ask the people to turn it down so he could sleep. They ignored him. This made Somboon even more angry. So…
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Documents Forger Arrested In Lampang
The Metropolitan police have announced the arrest of a forger who produced a large variety of Thai documents and IDs over a period of ten years. Computer expert Aphiwat Kanthawong, 32, had been earning up to 400,000 baht a month over the last decade, reported Daily News. He was arrested at a Lampang post office…
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Shots Fired During High-Speed Car Chase As 16 Year-Old Drug Dealer Taken Down In Khon Kaen
A high speed chase ensued in Khon Kaen after a white Isuzu pick-up truck failed to stop at a checkpoint near the Weluwan police station. The police noticed that the pick-up was the same plate number as one noted in suspicious activity a week before. The chase continued through Samran sub-district where the front driver…
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Why Do Foreign Criminals Flock To Thailand ? Thai Media Speak To Immigration
In what they called an all bases covered exclusive influential, Thai media posed a question to a leading figure at Thai immigration: Why do foreign fugitives and criminals love to come and settle and hide out in Thailand. Many of the responses of Pol Col Thatchapong Sarawanangkoon would read as a list why anyone would…
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Murder Charge Laid Against Nareekan’s Truck Driver As Panel Probes Police Corruption Claim
Despite his proclamation of innocence, police have filed a murder charge against trailer-truck driver Surapon “Aof” Darakham, 23, over the July 19 death of 19-year-old Nareekan Yawiraj, deputy national police chief Srivara Ransibrahmanakul said yesterday. The charge would stick, thanks to incriminating evidence and witnesses’ testimony, Srivara said, although the evidence so far allegedly incriminated…
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Villagers Try To Lynch Top Policeman’s Son Who Murdered Grandmother And Grandson In Their Own Home
Video footage on Facebook showed the moments when a top policeman’s son was taken on a reenactment of a horrific crime that has shocked Thailand. Watcharaphon Sima, 20, or who the media have dubbed “Ai For” was taken by 100 cops to the house where he repeatedly stabbed 56 year old Sanom Kaesorn and her…
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Ten Facebook Users Lose One Million Baht In Online Scam
Ten Facebook users in Nakhon Ratchasima filed a complaint with police on Wednesday, claiming they had handed over about Bt1 million to a woman who had promised high yields on their investment but failed to deliver. Phankamol Srijira, 26, led the group to file the complaint at the Si Khiew district police station. They allege…