Sudden escalation
Police inside Supranee's house.
Police in Bang Pa-in district responded to an emergency call after a man was shot inside a home in Sam Ruen subdistrict.
Officers and rescue workers found the injured man — identified as Karn (no other details given), 47 — lying inside the front gate, crying out for help.
He had been shot once in the back, with the bullet exiting through the chest. He was taken to hospital.
The shooter, his wife, Supranee (no other details given), 51, owner of the house, was waiting inside.
She handed officers her registered .38-calibre revolver and surrendered.
Police noted that two rounds had been fired. A knife was also found on the floor of the house and seized as evidence.
From the hospital stretcher, Karn told officers he had climbed into the house to retrieve some of his belongings after the couple argued the night before.
Because the house was locked, he climbed the fence and forced open a tool cabinet when his former wife opened fire — first one shot, then a second that struck him.
Supranee told police that she and her ex-husband had divorced in May and that he had repeatedly caused disturbances, damaged property and made threats, including pouring fuel around the house and threatening to burn it down.
She said patrol officers had been called to intervene many times.
On this occasion, she said, he climbed over the fence shouting aggressively, carrying a knife, and began rummaging through the house and prying at the doors and windows.
Fearing he intended to harm her, she fired to defend herself: “I meant to shoot low, at his legs. I didn’t know how it ended up hitting him in the back.
“If I hadn’t fired to protect myself, I don’t know what would have happened. He always carries a knife.”
She added that family members had urged her to move away for her safety, but she had nowhere else to go.
Her former husband, she said, had a history of leaving her for other women, returning, causing trouble and demanding money to pay off daily loan debts.
Pol Col Phiphop Naphutra, superintendent of Bang Pa-in police, confirmed patrol units had responded to multiple domestic-violence incidents at the house in the past.
No word was to hand as to what charges Supranee or Karn will face. The probe continues.
He’ll do anything for a mate
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| Atichat nabbed after he came off his bike. |
A Bangkok druggie crashed after spotting police as he was riding his motorcycle on the wrong way up the footpath.
That was the least of his offending — he was also on the way to deliver illicit drugs.
Upon seeing police, he panicked and crashed. Officers found him carrying both crystal meth and ya ba pills.
He told police he was on his way to deliver the drugs to raise money to bail out a friend.
Pol Col Anan Worasat, superintendent of Bang Khen police, arrested Atichat, or “Sam” (no surname given), 27, with 41.5 grammes of crystal meth and 108 ya ba pills.
He was caught along Phahon Yothin Road in the district.
The arrest stemmed from a routine patrol. When officers reached the outbound side of Phahon Yothin Road heading toward the Bang Khen roundabout, they spotted the suspect riding a motorcycle against traffic on the footpath.
When he saw the police he tried to swerve away, lost control and toppled over.
Officers searched him and found crystal meth hidden in his shoulder bag and tucked inside his left glove.
He admitted that additional ya ba pills were stashed under his motorcycle seat. The items were seized as evidence.
During questioning, the suspect confessed he had taken crystal meth before riding.
When the patrol unit told him to stop, he panicked and tried to flee until he crashed.
He said he had been rushing to deliver the drugs to a customer to earn money to post bail for a friend who had been arrested earlier.
Police handed him over to Bang Khen police for legal action.
They will sleep anywhere
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| Wan, who was caught sleeping in someone else's house. |
An Udon Thani woman was caught after breaking into someone else’s home and choosing that moment to have a sleep.
When confronted, she rambled through a series of excuses — claiming everything from being sent to deliver a package to being asked to “check the meter”.
The incident took place in the Sri Chomchuen 2 community in Udon Thani municipality.
The house, whose owner works in Bangkok, had been locked up and left under the care of neighbours.
Around 5pm, one neighbour noticed something amiss and went inside to check.
He found the door forced open — and a woman, Wan (no other details given), 32, fast asleep as if it were her own bedroom. She was detained and handed over to police.
Thongchan, the neighbour, said the woman had been living in the house for several days, judging by the clothing and personal items scattered around.
Police tried questioning her, but getting a straight answer proved challenging. At first she claimed, “Someone sent me here to deliver a package”.
When asked again, she changed her story to: “The owner asked me to come record the metre readings.”
Then she said she had brought an electric oven for the owner, who supposedly needed it for a camping trip somewhere.
She insisted she hadn’t stolen anything — she had just come in to rest.
Police took her to the station, where a urine test turned up positive for drugs. She faces charges of housebreaking and using methamphetamine pills.
Tales from the border
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| Cambodian spies nabbed in Trat after using a mobile phone to film local spots. |
A Cambodian husband and wife were nabbed in Trat as they were riding a motorcycle and using a mobile phone to film local spots. Local police charged them with spying.
They recorded their journey from Khao Lan checkpoint and the Rajakarun Centre of the Thai Red Cross Society at Khao Lan all the way towards downtown Trat.
Before they reached the city, officers from the military and district officials intercepted them, and called police from Ban Tha Luean station to take the couple in for questioning.
During initial questioning, the husband and wife denied being spies. They insisted they were Cambodian nationals with valid migrant-worker ID cards, living in Klong Yai district and working as domestic cleaners.
They denied filming strategic routes or military camps, claiming instead that their relatives were planning to visit but didn’t know the way — so they filmed the route to send to them.
Officials were unconvinced, finding the explanation illogical given that the footage included military facilities.
Officers also found Khmer-language conversations on the woman’s phone. The man’s phone could not yet be checked due to network issues, so both devices were seized.
The couple were initially charged with espionage — disseminating security-related information — and remain in custody.
Meanwhile, police in Surin are among unsung heroes of the war effort, patrolling villages affected by the Thai–Cambodian border clashes. Their mission: to care for pets left behind after residents were evacuated to temporary shelters.
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| Police feed a dog behind the lines. |
Many pets had been left unattended after owners fled to safety during the skirmishes.
Police said they are now responsible for looking after residents’ animals, including stray dogs. For cattle and buffalo, they have coordinated with the Department of Livestock Development, which has deployed teams to care for large livestock.
Under orders, residents in vulnerable areas have been evacuated, and village defence volunteers and animal-care teams have also been assigned.
In addition to caring for animals, police maintain a rapid-response unit of around 10 officers who patrol the border area to gather intelligence on suspected Cambodian spies. They must also keep order in villages across the four affected subdistricts.
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