One visit too many
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| Tiangsak points out where he killed his wife's ex-husband, Sarawut. |
Sarawut “Bank” Taiwarin, 32, turned up at the plantation in Nam Som district armed with a knife while his ex-wife, Ranang, and her new husband Tiangsak “Joy” Kulsopha, 42, were working, the couple later told police.
Mr Tiangsak grabbed a hoe handle to defend himself and shouted for him to stop. Sarawut replied, “I’m not here to kill you — if I wanted to, I’d have done it long ago”.
Trying to avoid trouble, Mr Tiangsak said he and his wife walked away toward the village headman’s plantation.
But Sarawut followed on his motorbike, wielding a eucalyptus stick he had just cut from a nearby plot, and struck him four or five times. Mr Tiangsak told his wife to run into the village to seek help.
Cornered, he said he fought back with a bamboo tool handle, which snapped during the struggle. The men grappled until Sarawut fell, hitting his head hard on a rock.
Mr Tiangsak then tied the victim’s arms and legs with his shirt and later with wire used for latex cups, fearing the man would revive and attack again. Sarawut begged to be released but soon went limp.
After realising he was unresponsive, Mr Tiangsak took the victim’s motorbike to the village headman’s house to report the incident and later turned himself in. He insisted he never intended to kill his wife’s ex-husband.
Pol Lt Col Wichit Lachai, an investigator with Nam Som police, said officers called to the scene found Sarawut’s body lying on his back.
His hands were tied behind his back with a T-shirt that was also looped around his neck. His ankles were bound with wire and fabric. Police discovered severe bruising to his left temple, consistent with a blow from a hard object.
Officers seized a 1.5-metre-long hoe handle, a broken bamboo shaft from a digging tool and a 1.8-metre eucalyptus stick believed to have been used in the fight.
During questioning, Mr Tiangsak admitted responsibility.
The victim’s mother, Buariang Pimdee, 48, said her son and his ex-wife had lived together for two years but often argued and hit each other. After she left to live with Mr Tiangsak, tensions between the three never ceased.
“I never thought he would be killed like this,” she said, urging police to pursue the case to the full extent of the law.
Ranang, the widow caught in the middle, told reporters she and her new husband had been sitting in their plantation hut when her ex-husband arrived with a machete.
She said Mr Tiangsak tried to avoid the confrontation, but Sarawut chased them down and attacked.
She added that since their separation nearly a year ago, Sarawut often forced her into sex against her will, causing arguments with her new husband.
“I’ll wait for Tiangsak to finish his sentence. He’s always been good to me.”
An autopsy later determined Sarawut died from suffocation, though another report said it was from a blow to the head. Police charged Mr Tiangsak with murder.
Rehab fails to make impact
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| 'Joe', who ran amok at home |
An Udon Thani man who fled compulsory detox treatment at a local hospital returned home and demanded to know from his family: “Where’s my cannabis bong?”
Police were called to the house in Sam Phrao subdistrict after the 32-year-old man, unhappy to find his smoking apparatus had gone missing in his absence, and his withdrawal obviously not complete, went on the rampage.
Pol Sub-Lt Buncha Sarapanya, a deputy inspector at Muang station, received a complaint from Suksri (no surname given) 68, the suspect’s aunt.
She said her nephew, “Joe,” had escaped from rehab at Udon Thani Hospital, where he was being treated for methamphetamine and cannabis abuse, and had gone berserk at home, scaring his family.
At the scene, a single-storey concrete house, officers knocked on the door until Joe emerged looking bewildered, asking what the problem was.
When questioned about reports he had been throwing objects into the neighbours’ yard, he denied it, saying he had come back from hospital and was “just resting at home.”
Aunt Suksri told police that Joe had once been addicted to meth but had switched to cannabis and rice whisky.
When drunk or high, he often became violent. Relatives had tried to commit him for treatment before, but he refused to take his medication, leading to frequent psychotic episodes.
The previous day, Joe confronted his mother, Rasmee, 56, demanding to know: “Where’s my bong?” before threatening to kill her.
Terrified, she fled to stay with relatives. The following day he asked his aunt for a knife and hurled stones at her house.
“I’ve raised this nephew since he was a boy,” Aunt Suksri said. “I’ve always put up with it, but this time I really can’t take any more.”
Police placed Joe in custody and took him by pickup truck back to hospital for psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation.
The fake cops are here
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| Police gather outside the grandma's house. |
An 83-year-old grandmother in Bangkok refused appeals from police at her front gate to stop transferring funds to a call-centre gang.
She believed she was talking to “real police” on the phone and the uniformed men at her gate were imposters.
The exchange was filmed by police as they gathered outside the house, with one officer complaining they had made multiple trips to her house but she still refused to listen.
She finally realised she was the victim of a scam after a family member intervened at the behest of police, but only the grandmother had transferred almost 5 million baht over five separate transactions.
The case first came to light when the Anti-Online Crime Operations Center (AOC 1441), under the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, noticed suspicious withdrawals and alerted Phra Khanong police.
Officers visited her home to warn the old woman not to transfer any more money.
But despite their uniforms and ID, the woman dismissed them as impostors and kept taking calls from the fake “police” on her mobile phone.
Between Sept 3 and 10, she deposited or transferred money five times, a total of 4.95 million baht. Police later managed to freeze about 2.5 million before it disappeared into mule accounts.
When investigators finally persuaded her to cooperate, the woman, unnamed in news reports, explained she had been told by scammers that her identity was linked to money laundering and that only by transferring funds for “verification” could she clear her name.
The fraudsters impersonated a senior police colonel in Nakhon Sawan and even convinced her to add them on LINE for “official” instructions.
Pol Col Chaiwat Pradabthai, Phra Khanong police chief, admitted it took time to convince the grandmother she had been tricked.
“Even at the station, she still doubted us, until we sat down and explained carefully.”
Pol Col Phumiyot Lekkla, deputy commander of Metropolitan Police Division 5, said the AOC system was crucial for flagging the withdrawals quickly.
“It helps victims realise sooner that they’re being deceived, and allows us to freeze some funds before it’s too late.”
Inquiries are continuing into the grandmother’s missing money.
Now, where’s the dishrack
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| Sanan, who let himself into a stranger's house. |
A shirtless Udon Thani man wandered into a stranger’s home and did the dishes, which was nice of him, before wandering into the owner’s bedroom when he was stopped by neighbours who noticed something was amiss.
Muang police on Sept 15 arrived to find the 38-year-old man subdued by locals after he resisted their attempts to throw him out of the house.
They say he let himself into the house while the owner, a security guard, was away at work.
The man, wearing only shorts, and carrying a white backpack, slipped into a rented house in Nong Bua sub-district.
Instead of stealing anything, he started doing the housework.
He fetched water, watered the plants and even sat down to wash the dishes.
Neighbours quickly noticed something wasn’t right. They shouted, asking what on earth he was doing inside.
But the man mumbled incoherently, refused to leave and then walked into the bedroom where the homeowner’s wife and daughter were. Alarmed, neighbours grabbed a wooden stick, marched inside and managed to drag him back out.
By the time the homeowner arrived, the intruder had been pinned down, with neighbours filming everything for evidence.
The house belongs to 54-year-old Siwakorn (no surname given), who has rented the place with his wife and daughter for six years. He works nights as a security guard, while his wife is a homemaker.
He said he had just finished a night shift when he got a call from neighbours saying a strange man had entered his home. He came back in time to see the man already restrained. The visitor also damaged his pickup truck, smashing a taillight and denting the bodywork.
Police identified the intruder as Sanan, 38 (no surname given). At the station, his story made little sense: he claimed he had run away from his home in Ban Dung district and entered the house to look for his mother and fetch her water.
He insisted he meant no harm — he just “missed his mum”. Officers have charged him with breaking and entering and property damage.
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