Meth-fuelled rows turn deadly
Police nab Chanthep at the house.
Police in Nong Saeng district were called to a two-storey house where they found the naked body of Kitiya, or “Beer” (no surname given), 36, lying in a pool of blood on the ground-floor bathroom tiles.
A pink towel had been draped over her. She had a single but deep stab wound to the right side of her neck. A bloodstained knife was lying at the bathroom entrance.
Outside, officers found the killer — Beer’s mother, Chanthep (surname withheld), 52 — sitting drunk on the ground, holding her national ID card and waiting to give herself up. She immediately confessed.
During questioning, Chanthep told police she lived in the house with her 93-year-old mother and daughter Beer. Both women were widowed.
Beer had divorced three husbands and had three children, all of whom live with their fathers; she lived with her own mother and regularly used methamphetamine.
The mother admitted she had previously reported her daughter to police in an attempt to stop her using drugs.
Beer had recently taken up with a new boyfriend, Kamphee, who also had a drug record and was said to be wanted by police.
Chanthep disapproved and told her daughter to end the relationship because “he had no future”. Beer refused — and, according to Chanthep, even forced her own mother to take meth with her.
Complicating matters further, Chanthep herself had a male lover who sometimes stayed over.
Four days before the killing, mother and daughter were drinking heavily together when Beer drove her mother’s boyfriend out of the house in a jealous rage.
The two women fought, with Beer hitting her mother with a chair and shouting abuse.
On the night before the incident, Beer again brought her boyfriend Kamphee to sleep upstairs.
The mother objected and demanded he leave because he was “a ya ba dealer the police were hunting”. Both mother and daughter then drank and used meth together.
By morning, Chanthep was drunk again. Beer awoke and went to shower, and another shouting match erupted.
Enraged, the mother fetched a sharp kitchen knife, held her daughter’s head down and stabbed her in the neck inside the bathroom.
“I’m devastated,” Chanthep told police. “But she wouldn’t listen. What happened has happened. If her spirit can hear me, I want to say I accept all the blame.”
Relatives living next door confirmed that the two women had a long history of violent drunken fights, often brawling or screaming abuse at each other, only to reconcile later with “Mae jaa… Look jaa” tenderness once sober.
Chanthep went to her elder sister’s house after the killing and said, “Hey, I’ve killed Beer”.
Her sister initially did not believe her until she saw the blood on her clothes.
Police said a urine test showed the mother positive for methamphetamine.
She has been charged with causing the death of another person and remains in custody.
Three times was enough
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| Aran after he was shot three times by the homeowner. |
A Phetchaburi man who had suffered a string of break-ins at his farm home opened fire on a teenage burglar, wounding him with three shots after discovering him inside the house.
Police said Santi (no surname given), 65, and his wife had driven out to check the property — a small, unlit, single-storey house set in the middle of rice fields in Muang district — after Santi noticed the CCTV cameras he had installed were suddenly offline.
The house had been burgled three to four times previously, prompting him to set up the system.
When the couple arrived, they found Aran (no surname given), 18, from Ban Laem district, inside the house acting suspiciously.
Santi drew a 9mm handgun and fired three rounds, hitting the teenager in the right shoulder, arm and knee. Aran collapsed on the floor, bleeding heavily, and cried out in pain.
Good Samaritans who reached the scene before police provided first aid before taking him to Phrachomklao Hospital.
Police also found the suspect’s motorcycle parked about 10 metres from the house.
Officers said the house is extremely isolated, surrounded by paddy fields and accessible only by a narrow dirt road with no lighting.
The terrain proved so difficult that both a police patrol car and the station chief’s vehicle skidded off the embankment and became stuck, forcing them to call in a tow truck.
Investigators have seized Santi’s firearm as evidence and will interview both the homeowner and the wounded suspect in detail before proceeding with charges.
Never far from jail
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| Items stolen by a former inmate who impersonated a corrections officer. |
A thief in Nong Khai, recently freed from jail, used a stolen Corrections Department uniform to impersonate an officer while prowling for targets.
Police last week recovered a haul of stolen property worth at least 500,000 baht after raiding the home of the serial burglar.
Police and district officials displayed 141 items of evidence, ranging from electrical appliances, amulets, farm tools, musical instruments, furniture, satellite dishes and solar panels, to toiletries, detergent, instant noodles — even a bag of laundered clothes and eggs.
All were believed to have been stolen from homes across Phon Phisai district.
Police said the burglary spree began in April, with six victims filing complaints over several months.
The breakthrough came on Nov 30, when a man reported his iPad stolen.
Because the device had a tracking app installed, officers followed the GPS signal to a house in Fao Rai district, closing in after dark.
The suspect, however, managed to slip away in the darkness.
Inside the house, police found the mountain of stolen goods — as well as a Corrections Department shirt, mixed in with the loot.
Investigators identified the suspect as a repeat offender who had been released in 2024 after serving time for theft.
He has more than 10 theft convictions and allegedly used a sidecar motorcycle to roam neighbourhoods during daytime hours, targeting houses left empty while residents were at work. He was unnamed in news reports.
Police say he had been telling his wife the items came from people who had forfeited property over unpaid debts.
One of the victims is a Nong Khai provincial prison officer, whose home in Udon Thani’s Sang Khom district was broken into in October.
The burglar smashed a window, disabled CCTV cameras and stole several items, including work uniforms and a laptop.
The officer said the Corrections Department shirt found in the suspect’s house belonged to him; his laptop, however, appears to have been sold on.
He said he did not know the suspect personally, but believed the man had once been an inmate at the same prison and had occasionally been assigned duties assisting staff.
Investigators suspect the thief wore the stolen uniform to pose as an official while scouting neighbourhoods.
Police say an arrest warrant is being sought, and efforts to track down the fugitive are ongoing.
Authorities also urged residents to install CCTV systems linked to Nong Khai police and to report suspicious activity via the 191 hotline.
Strange place to sleep
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| The tyre of the truck which ran over a homeless man. |
Officers from Muang police station received a report on Dec 4 of a fatal accident in the parking area of a restaurant along Sukhumvit Road, opposite the Naval Academy in Pak Nam.
There they found the body of an unidentified man, estimated to be 35–40 years old, with no identification on him.
He was wearing only trousers and was lying on his side, dead on the ground.
His skull had been crushed. Nearby was an employee shuttle bus.
The driver told officers that the vehicle had been parked overnight.
About 6am, he started the engine in preparation to pick up workers.
About half an hour later, he began to pull out.
He felt the bus roll over what he thought was a log, as the vehicle jolted.
He stopped to check, and was horrified to discover he had run over a man, who evidently kept sleeping even as the driver started the vehicle and prepared to leave.
He believed the victim had been sleeping under the bus to keep warm, and the rear wheel had concealed him from view as the driver approached.
Police transferred the body for a forensic autopsy.
The driver has been brought in for further questioning as the probe continues.
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