• THAILAND

  60,000 criminal suspects rounded up

  News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 09/11/2022

  » More than 60,000 suspects in cases mostly tied to narcotics and illegal weapons have been detained during a series of nationwide raids from Oct 10 until on Tuesday, in a major security operation aimed at bolstering confidence among the international delegates attending the 29th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Bangkok on Nov 18-19.

• THAILAND

  Teen fears for life after loan shark threats

  News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 04/11/2021

  » A 19-year-old student sought help from the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) yesterday, saying she had received threats to her life from a series of loan sharks to whom she owed about 1.9 million baht in total from an initial loan of just 5,000 baht.

• THAILAND

  Deeply in debt student threatened, seeks CSD help

  Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 03/11/2021

  » A 19-year-old student sought help from the Crime Suppression Division on Wednesday, saying she had received threats to her life from a series of loan sharks she owed about 1.9 million baht in total.

• THAILAND

  Raids net drugs bonanza worth B8m

  News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 31/10/2020

  » Police yesterday revealed a series of recent drug arrests that resulted in the seizure of 1,470 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, 670,000 speed pills, 431kg of heroin and other narcotics and items worth more than eight million baht.

• THAILAND

  Police reveal eight major drug busts

  Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 30/10/2020

  » Police on Friday announced details of a series of recent drug arrests that resulted in the seizure of 1,470 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, 670,000 speed pills, 431kg of heroin and other narcotics and assets worth over 8 million baht.

• THAILAND

  Online gun sales network busted

  Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 20/08/2020

  » Police have arrested three people for illegally making and selling firearms online, and 45 customers, and seized 120 guns and more than 2,200 cartridges - breaking up a network operating in 39 provinces.

• THAILAND

  Gold hold-up suspect claims he 'killed for the thrill'

  Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 22/01/2020

  » The suspect arrested for the triple-murder and holdup at a gold shop in Lop Buri two weeks ago is the director of a primary school and claimed he killed to spice up his boring life, according to police sources.

• THAILAND

  '191 police' targets narcotics scourge

  News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 09/09/2019

  » Learning from a recent series of drug crackdowns carried out in several communities of Bangkok, the Patrol and Special Operation Division, better known as the 191 police, have realised that demand for narcotics is still high in many places.

• THAILAND

  Round up of unsavoury suspects

  News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 27/12/2018

  » On the crime front, public attention was dominated to a large degree by news stories that were wide-ranging, unusual and controversial. The alleged bitcoin fraud had police and readers delving into the complexity of the cryptocurrency issue, which is new to most people, while the arrest of senior clergy in temple fund embezzlement cases tested people's faith in Buddhism. Meanwhile, the arrest of a policeman-turned-hitman responsible for at least two murders, brought back memories of his alleged connection to the kidnapping and murders of the wife and son of a jeweller holding vital clues in the 1995 stolen Saudi gems case. Police also claimed success in nabbing all overstayers in a long-running crackdown. However, the reportedly accidental shooting death of an Indian tourist in a gun battle between two rival Bangkok gangs undermined confidence in tourist safety.

• THAILAND

  Foreign overstayers ‘flushed out’

  News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 03/11/2018

  » The number of foreigners overstaying their visas has come down to zero following a series of raids on aliens and criminal suspects over the past year, Immigration Bureau acting commissioner Pol Maj Surachate Hakparn “Big Joke” has claimed.

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