Archive For The “Crime” Category
Big Joke: Busts company issuing fake visas and 90-day stamps Visa agents in Laksi in Bangkok have been busted by immigration after they circumvented immigration by issuing fake visas and 90-day stamps. The immigration site on Facebook said that their leader Lt-Gen Surachate Hakparn personally led a raid on CBS World Co Ltd, a company…
Bad guys out: Big Joke meets Italian and Czech criminals hiding out in Thailand Chief of immigration Lt-Gen Surachate Hakparn has announced the arrest of two men wanted in Europe on drug and robbery charges. One had a Thai wife and had been hiding out in Phuket for nearly ten years. The other was a…
German man arrested for stealing passenger’s luggage at airport A 39-year-old German man, who is wanted in connection with the theft of a British tourist’s luggage from Suvarnabhumi Airport on December 13, has been arrested while trying to leave Thailand via a border checkpoint in Trat province. The German suspect, Michael Joerg, was identified…
Two arrested in crackdown on transnational drug ring A Canadian man and his Thai male accomplice have been arrested in a joint operation to crack down on a transnational drug trafficking ring that tried to smuggle heroin hidden in automobile shock absorbers into Australia, Niyom Termsrisuk secretary-general of the Office of Narcotics Control Board (ONCB),…
German on overstay caught selling LSD tabs in Full Moon Party sting Thai cops on party island Koh Pangan said they had conducted a sting operation in front of a convenience store in Ban Tai and arrested a 46-year-old German man for selling what the Thai media said was a new drug called “paper that…
A Gunman has opened fire in southern Thailand in a ferocious New Year’s Eve attack, leaving six dead before turning the gun on himself. The mass shooting happened about 10 minutes after midnight when the family was attending a New Year’s Eve party in Phato District, which is located in Chumphon Province in southern…
25 Thai call-centre gang members repatriated after being jailed in Cambodia Cambodian authorities handed over 25 Thais to Thai police on Saturday after they had served 10 months in a Cambodian jail for working for a Taiwanese-led call centre scam gang. The Thais, nine women and 16 men, were handed over at the Ban Klong…
Weekly crackdown nets hundreds more foreigners Another 537 foreigners were arrested by Immigration police on Thursday after raids on 225 locations around the country targeting those living illegally in Thailand. Pol Maj Gen Itthitpol Itthisarnronnachai, the deputy commissioner of the Immigration Bureau, held a press conference in central Bangkok at 1.45am on Friday to announce…
Thais conning Thais! this time it’s a 30 million baht Ponzi scheme run from Australia Following strange claims earlier in the week that Thais don’t con Thais comes news that a Thai woman and her gang operating out of Melbourne and Sydney has ripped off 100 of her compatriots. The Ponzi scheme has caused losses…
Revealed: the special button that allows bent taxi drivers to rip off customers. An online video showed what one taxi driver was doing to rip off his customers. He had rigged up a special “red button” that he pressed while driving. The button – hidden under duct tape and attached to an arm behind the…