13 nabbed in raid on Khao San road shops selling laughing gas balloons
A CRACKDOWN on shops illegally selling balloons filled with laughing gas, that is nitrous oxide, in Khao San road area today (Feb. 2) netted 13 suspects and six equipment used to produce them for sale worth around 1 million baht, TV Channel 7 said this evening. A Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) police team together […]
Read MoreDozen online gambling operators nabbed in Chiang Mai
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A DOZEN SUSPECTED ONLINE gambling operators were today (Jan.13) rounded up at a cosy den in Chiang Mai, police said. In a police raid on the rented house in Mae Rim district of the northern province, the 12 young suspects, male and female, were arrested on charge of running the […]
Read MoreBig Joke’s house searched after team members were netted in online gambling raids
CYBER POLICE searched the house of Deputy National Police Chief Pol. Lt. Gen. Surachate Hakparn, nicknamed Big Joke, after seven officers in his team were rounded up on the charges of involvement in running online gambling websites but did not find incriminating evidence, TV Channel 7 and Naewna newspaper said today (Sep. 25). This […]
Read MorePhuket’s Kathu district chief transferred after raid on 2 pubs
STEMMING from a raid on two unlicensed pubs in Phuket’s Kathu district by the Department of Provincial Administration amid complaints that they are noisy and stay open past the 2 a.m. closing time the Interior Ministry today (June 2) transferred this district chief together with three others in the southern region, Matichon newspaper said. […]
Read MoreIllegal telecommunication devices seized in shopping mall raid
CYBER crime police together with the National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission (NBTC) and Excise Department officials today (May 28) raided a well-known shopping centre in Pathumwan area and seized a large amount of illegal telecommunication equipment, TV Channel 7 said. The team searched the fourth floor of this shopping centre and seized 157 illegal […]
Read MoreAmnesty urges Thai Govt to not deport Myanmar people after many quizzed
FOLLOWING the interrogation of around a hundred Myanmar people found residing in buildings at a commercial complex in Mae Sot Amnesty International today (Mar. 24) urged the Thai government to not deport them as they face imprisonment, torture or execution on the orders of the Myanmar junta, Matichon newspaper said today (Mar. 24). Amnesty […]
Read More‘Big Joke’ going to Phuket to probe sex trafficking of teen girls
DEPUTY National Police Chief Pol. Lt. Gen. Surachate Hakparn, whose nickname is Big Joke, is heading for Phuket to expand investigation of sex trafficking teenage girls after two suspects were arrested in a bar raid and six victims rescued, Thai Rath newspaper said today (Mar. 17). Pol. Maj. Gen. Wasan Techaakasen, deputy chief of […]
Read MoreSeven dead in shooting outside East Jerusalem synagogue
By AFP and published by CNA Jerusalem – A gunman killed seven people at an east Jerusalem synagogue on Friday (Jan. 27), Israeli police said, in a dramatic escalation of violence that followed a deadly raid in the West Bank a day earlier. The shooting in the Neve Yaakov neighbourhood of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem […]
Read MorePolice raid Pattaya club at 3 a.m., 16 hookah burners seized
AT RAID on a Pattaya club at 3 a.m. this morning (Dec. 3) found around 150 foreign tourists drinking, dancing and smoking hookah with 16 hookah burners seized, TV Channel 7 said. Pol. Col. Chakraphan Kittisiripornkul, deputy chief of Chonburi police, together with Pol. Col. Kulchat Kulchai, superintendent of Pattaya City police station, led […]
Read MoreOver 200 revellers all flee Pattaya pub raid
A RAID on a high-end pub in Pattaya by a team of policemen from Provincial Police Region 2 and Pattaya police station failed to control the over 200 revellers who all pushed their way through the cordon and escaped, TV Channel 7 said today (Oct. 23). When the police team arrived at the posh […]
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