Two-hour turnaround time
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| Tao, nabbed for drugs |
Muang Sam Sip police, posing as buyers, caught Tao (no surname given), 25, on July 16 when he turned up to sell them ya ba pills shortly after he secured bail on drugs charges for another offence, brought against him four days before.
He had bought the stash from an ex-cellmate, also caught with him in the July 12 bust and like him later freed from police custody. He intended to sell the drugs to local teens, but police caught him first.
Police found 50 pills hidden inside five coffee straws which Tao brought with him for the 8pm meeting.
Tao, who was released on bail just two hours before, said he was selling drugs to repay a debt to his father, who lent him the money for his bail release.
Police met his father Sayan, 55, when they took him home to search his house. They found 11 pills in Sayan’s room. In an entertaining twist, he said he bought them from his son and intended to take them himself, not sell.
Police also searched Tao’s room, when they found another 2,108 pills secreted in five blue druggie bags. Tao was charged with having the drugs and possession with intent to supply, his father with possession only.
Tao said he had been nabbed on drugs charges many times now. He was jailed most recently for two years and nine months. When he was freed, he started taking drugs again until he was caught on July 12.
On that occasion, police charged him with taking ya ba and having 11 pills in his possession. Tao was caught along with his friend from Phibun Mangsahan district. The two shared the same cell and while there, Tao agreed to buy drugs from him.
Tao had just bought the drugs from his mate when police, posing as buyers, caught him.
Shortly before his July 12 arrest, Tao left a message at the police station’s FB daring them to nab him, as he wanted to go to jail. Police acted on the dare, which nonetheless surprised him. “I was drunk and had just argued with my Dad over drugs. I never thought they would actually nab me,” he said later.
As for Sayan, he said he had warned his son against drug dealing, but he wouldn’t listen.
Brother’s sins hit home
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| Veera ‘Khao’ Turam |
Chum Saeng police in Satuek district arrested Veera “Khao” Turam, 32, for killing his brother Danupol, or “Tom”, 29 with a fold-up knife after he attacked their mother, Chantra, 59.
When Mr Veera intervened, Danupol tried stabbing him with a kitchen knife and the two started to fight. Mr Veera said he grabbed a knife nearby and stabbed his brother three times, in the chest, ribs and stomach. He insists he did not mean to kill him, but his brother died later from his injuries.
Mr Veera recently left a job in Bangkok with a big engineering firm to look after his ailing mother. He was seen as a promising talent but will now have to serve jail time for trying to protect her.
Locals say Danupol would regularly attack his mother and smash up their house if she failed to give him money to feed his drug habit.
“My brother did not work but had to take 8-10 ya ba pills a day, and drink five bottles of lao khao (a fiery Thai spirit),” Mr Veera told the media.
Ms Chantra said Danupol would ask for 200 baht a day to drink and take drugs, and if she didn’t have the money would grab her by the arm and take her around the village to borrow from locals. The result was she was now drowning in debt.
On the day of the attack, he had been drinking and asked for more money to buy drugs. When she refused, he started to hit her, and his elder brother intervened.
Phao Saendee, 55, an assistant village elder, said Danupol had taken drugs for years.
“The family has complained to police many times. They take him for rehab but after two or three days he is released and starts again,” he said.
“Ms Chantra looks after two relatives, aged 7 and 13. I wonder where she will get the money now, as she relies on Veera to send her money,” he said in tears. Police charged Mr Veera with assault, causing death.
Jealousy strikes
A Chanthaburi husband was nabbed after stabbing his wife to death, in a fit of rage after finding her with a fancy man.
Pong Nam Ron police arrested Thawatchai “M” Klasungnoen for killing his wife of four years, Patcharapa (no surname given), 20, at her family home.
On July 15, M caught his wife at a motel with an admirer from Bangkok. M, who had been suspicious of his wife’s behaviour, had secretly installed a GPS tracking device in her vehicle.
He confronted the pair outside the motel while filming the encounter on FB Live. In fiery scenes, M asks Patcharapa’s admirer why he was seeing his wife. The man, who was not named in news reports, said he didn’t know Patcharapa was still married.
“She told me she had a family but had left you,” he said, adding he had been in town just a few days.
Patcharapa, who has a three-year-old child by M, argues with her husband, demanding to know why he had to resort to such entrapment tactics. After much shouting, the confrontation appears to fizzle out.
However, the next morning, M went to see Patcharapa at her family home. Her mother, who met him at the door, said he demanded to see Patcharapa, or he would break the window.
She let him in, the pair started arguing, and M pulled out a knife and stabbed her daughter, the mother, unnamed in news reports, she said in tears.
M, she said, also tried attacking her, but she was able to escape into a nearby forest. He fled the scene and was later nabbed by police. The mother said M had long accused her of trying to drive him and Patcharapa apart.
M, who admitted the attack, said he had noticed messages popping up on his wife’s phone from an admirer. Charged with premeditated murder, he offered an apology to the victim’s family.
Pregnancy no barrier
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| Chayada was attacked with a hammer and a knife. |
Muang police nabbed Sakulkan (no surname provided), 40, for attacking homeowner Chayada (no surname provided), 45, and her daughter, Pathida, 19, with a hammer and knife.
Chayada was stabbed 13 times to the body and hit over the head with the hammer. The offender brought both weapons from her home.
Her daughter, who came to her mother’s aid when she called for help, has two stab wounds.
Chayada said she was at home with her daughter and a young son when she heard someone enter about 4am on July 14. Her husband, she said, had left home shortly before to sell fish at the market.
“I saw a shadow as if someone was raising a hammer to srike. I leapt up and we started fighting. The intruder was also wielding a knife,” she said.
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| Sakulkan, who broke into a Phayao family’s home. |
“She was also stabbed during the fight, but we managed to overpower the intruder. We found a rope and tied her up with it,” she told reporters.
Chayada called her husband and together with locals they restrained the woman until police arrived.
The intruder was wearing dark camouflage gear, track shoes and a balaclava mask. When they took the mask off, they were shocked to discover Sakulkan, who is also a relative of Chayada’s.
A frequent visitor to their home, she had shared a meal with her just the night before.
While they have few clues as to what caused the attack, Chayada said the offender was raving incoherently about wanting to kill someone as she swung her knife. She said the two get along and she can’t understand why Sakulkan suddenly went berserk.
Paew, 70, another neighbour, said Sakulkan, who is seven months’ pregnant, sold fish with the victims’ family. The three women were sent to hospital, and police were planning to charge the attacker once she was released.
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