Crime News

01-04-2013
Drunk Road Raging Thai Points Gun At Tourist Van[3,004 views]

A Pattaya municipal officer used his gun to threaten a van driver transporting tourists on Sukhumvit Road, near the Pattaya Floating Market. The drunk suspect was tailgating the van, and became enraged when the van did not make room to let him pass. He was later arrested.
31-03-2013
Scrappy Dental Clinic Lady Stabbed By Burglar[1,596 views]

A 31-year-old woman was stabbed in her right arm with a pair of scissors while fighting a burglar at a Pattaya dental clinic. The family lives above the clinic owned by her brother-in-law. She had surprised the burglar, who fought her off and escaped with 9,000 baht.
30-03-2013
Video Game Addict Steals From Temple To Feed Habit[1,087 views]

A 14-year-old boy was caught stealing from the donation boxes at a south Pattaya temple. Two others who talked him into stealing the money escaped capture. The boy said he was addicted to online video games and needed money to play the games.
29-03-2013
Volunteer Thai Cops Extorted Cash And Sold Drugs[1,821 views]

Three Thai traffic police volunteers of Nongprue admitted to keeping drugs they found at police checkpoints and demanding bribes to let people go. The outlaw officers later sold the drugs. Police were alerted to the rogue officers by an informant.
29-03-2013
Walking Street Hustler Was Peddling Meth Cigarettes[2,747 views]

A 21-year-old man whose job was to encourage people to enter a Walking Street nightclub was arrested for drug dealing. He hid each amphetamine pill in an individual cigarette, which he sold for 300 THB. Police seized 19 pills of amphetamines inside 19 cigarettes.
29-03-2013
Cops Nab German-Thai Couple Opening Illegal School[5,384 views]

Police arrested a 45-year-old German man and his Thai wife for opening a German language school without a permit. Concerned parents notified the police after discovering the school was illegal. Police also found that the German has pending arrest warrants from his native country.
29-03-2013
Crabby Beach Scavenger Stabbed For Being Snobby[1,994 views]

Two Pattaya beach scavengers had a drunken quarrel that resulted in one man getting stabbed. Police later arrested his assailant on the beach. The suspect was angered when the victim snubbed him, and further insulted him by saying he smelled stink from not bathing.
28-03-2013
Illegal Orthodontics Shops Raided At Chonburi Mall[1,528 views]

Crime Suppression Division police raided two illegal Orthodontics business in a well-known Chonburi department store mall. Officers arrested a worker and store owner. Customers had complained that the shops offered shoddy products and services to the point of cheating them.
28-03-2013
Poisoned Woman Robbed And Raped by ‘Shaman’[3,031 views]

A 52-year-old Sattahip man was arrested for poisoning, raping and robbing a 41-year-old woman he had known for years. During a phony shaman ritual to reunite her with her separated husband, she was deceived into drinking herbicide and fell unconscious. Afterwards, the woman briefly revived and notified police before she died.
28-03-2013
Banglamung Police Sergeant Arrested For Drug Dealing[1,492 views]

A 53-year-old police sergeant was arrested for drug dealing at a small motel he owned in Banglamung. He was exposed by one of his teen customers who got arrested. The rogue officer was on probation after failing an earlier drug test.
27-03-2013
Slick Motorbiking Thief Grounded by Satthip Cops[1,835 views]

Sattahip police finally arrested a 22-year-old former convict who committed many snatchings on a motorbike. Victims included elderly women and the handicapped. The suspect was known as Koi-suea-phen (the name of a tiger tattoo). He confessed to committing crimes for money to buy meth.
26-03-2013
Violent Thai husband Gets Knifed By Abused Wife[2,636 views]

A 32-year-old man was seriously injured after being stabbed by his 43-year-old wife during a violent fight. According to the landlord, the couple argued all the time, and the man beat his wife every day.
26-03-2013
Chonburi Police Sabotage Sri Lankan Smugglers[1,163 views]

Eleven Sri Lankan men were arrested by officers of the Chonburi Immigration Bureau as they waited to be sent to a third country to work. Police were tipped off that the immigrants were housed in cramped living quarters in south Pattaya.
26-03-2013
Baht Bus Rider Claims Touchy-Feely Ladies Robbed Her[2,658 views]

A 26-year-old Beer Bar worker reported a bizarre theft by two Thai ladies she encountered on a baht bus. The victim said the ladies kept touching her body to apply a hypnotic-type drug, causing her to withdraw 90,000 THB from two ATMs to give to them.
25-03-2013
Cops Coerce Confession From Thai Pickpocket[1,419 views]

A 37-year-old woman admitted stealing three cellphones from people at the Central Festival shopping center. She gave two phones to accomplices and pawned the other. The security guard recognized her from a previous arrest and detained her. She then confessed during the police interrogation.
25-03-2013
Courier Delivered Drugs To Pay For Online Games[1,248 views]

A 19-year-old teenager on a motorbike was caught at a police checkpoint on Soi Khao Noi with nearly 2,000 meth pills and 85 grams of ya-ice. He said he only delivered the drugs for an unknown dealer, because he needed money to pay for an online game addiction.
25-03-2013
Pistol-Waving Music Lover Busted By Pattaya Cops[1,758 views]

A 22-year-old man was arrested for flashing a pistol at a concert near the Hard Rock Hotel during the Pattaya Music Festival. Security officers had searched concertgoers, but did not find his gun. The Thai man said he was only showing off the gun because he was drunk and feeling happy.
23-03-2013
Minimart Owner Beaten For Firing Female Employee[2,939 views]

A 50-year-old owner of a minimart on soi Post Office was beaten and robbed by 6 men and a woman after she fired the woman. Police chased the suspects’ pickup truck on Pattaya Second Road, which crashed into two parked cars. The female escaped, but the others were arrested.
22-03-2013
Media Asked To Help Snare A Sattahip Necklace Thief[2,088 views]

A 59-year-old wife of a navy officer asked the media to print a CCTV photo of a man on a motorbike who yanked a gold necklace from her neck in broad daylight. The police had not made much progress, so she hoped the media will enlist the public’s help to capture the thief.
22-03-2013
Music Festival Vendors Stabbed in Drunken Beef[2,689 views]

Two adult men and a teen boy were beaten and stabbed on Pattaya Beach in the early morning hours prior to the Pattaya Music Festival. The victims had set up a vendor’s tent to sell dolls. But while drinking on the beach behind their tent, they got into a fight with a nearby group of drinkers who used weapons.