Archive For The “Crime” Category
Twelve Thai nationals, who reportedly lost all money in gambling at a casino in Cambodian border town of Poipet and failed to retrieve their Thai passports from a creditor there, were arrested while trying to cross a border fence into Thailand in Sa Kaew’s Aranyaprathet district on Wednesday. Khlong Leuk police said on Thursday that…
Two foreign men, along with two Thais have been arrested on drug charges following a raid on a warehouse in Bangkok, Thai police said on Thursday. Joseph Toole, 64 from the UK and 67 year old David Kulik from Canada were arrested on Monday in Chonburi. Their arrests came after officers from Thailand’s Narcotics Suppression…
Thailand’s tech police have finally caught up with a website administrator behind a notorious post in September. A couple were shown having sex in the aisles of Big C in Saraburi. Technology Crime Suppression Division spokesman Pol Col Siriwat Deephor said that the source was Thai Swinging.com. The administrator of the website has been arrested…
Excise officials busted a factory in Thailand’s far south on Thursday that was mixing up fake Johnny Walker Red and Black label whisky. The whisky was described by officials as “very dangerous” for consumers and was headed for Bangkok and surrounding areas as well as for consumption in Hat Yai. The man behind the…
Police on Tuesday brought Kamtan Singhanart, 50, to apply to the Thon Buri Court’s order for a 12-day detention after he was accusedof splashing acid on his now-dead wife Chorladda Tharawan’s face before fleeing on November 9. Chorladda succumbed to her injuries and died after she sought treatment at Praram 2 Hospital. That hospital reportedly…
A Perth member of the notorious biker group Hells Angels and his wife have been sentenced to death in Thailand for trying to smuggle half a tonne of crystal methamphetamine into Australia. Luke Cook, 34, and his Thai wife Kanyarat Wechapitak, 40, were arrested at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport last December and charged in relation to…
Chiang Mai authorities are furious that a cave has been ruined by graffiti from foreign tourists. They have threatened to prosecute and seek jail terms for anyone who is caught. The latest damage comes to Thailand’s nature after teens from Liverpool and Canada spray-painted a historic wall in the northern Thai city. Foreign names were…
An Australian man brutally murdered his ex-girlfriend after she lent him money which he sent to his Thai mistress who he met online. At a hearing at Melbourne’s Magistrates Court on Sunday, Peter Brown, 57, pleaded guilty to murdering his ex girlfriend, Simone Fraser. Brown told the court how he had racked up $25,000 in…
The alleged mastermind behind the gangland style execution of a British man in Pattaya has been arrested in Spain. Toby James Nelhams, 45, was held on an international arrest warrant issued by the Thai authorities after he landed at Malaga airport. A spokesman for National Police in Malaga told the Daily Mail: “National Police have…
A British man who was arrested earlier this week for vandalising the 800 year old Tha Phae gate in Chiang Mai says he has “been an idiot”. Lee Furlong, 23, was caught on CCTV spraying ‘Scousse Lee’ onto the historic wall at 4am on Thursday morning. The young man from Liverpool, who even managed to…