Crime, Courts, Calamity

BANGKOK — Thursday marks the day the millionaire heir to an energy drink empire wanted for a fatal car accident five years ago must turn himself to the authorities.

PHUKET — Police on Wednesday declared a man’s murder of his own 11-month-old daughter and subsequent suicide a case closed.

SUPHAN BURI — A Brazilian woman was sexually assaulted by a taxi driver in Suphan Buri province after being picked up from a Bangkok airport on Tuesday.

BANGKOK — Police in Thailand say a man upset with his wife hanged their 11-month-old daughter on Facebook Live and then killed himself.

AYUTTHAYA — Supachai Poowong and his colleague Narapan Ngencharoen were coasting along a motorway bound for Ayutthaya after playing football together, heading toward the U-turn that would point them back toward Bangkok.

BANGKOK — Police arrested a man Tuesday morning in front of the Government House on his way to petition junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha over the missing 1932 revolution plaque, a colleague of his said.

HUA HIN — A man seen in a viral video threatening to shoot government, police and army leaders has been deemed mentally ill and sent for treatment, police said Monday.

BANGKOK — Two of six bottles of semen found on a would-be smuggler at the border with Laos came from a Bangkok fertility clinic, Nong Khai border customs officials said Friday.

BANGKOK — A Spanish man was sentenced to death Friday morning at the Ratchada Criminal Court for the savage 2016 murder of a fellow Spaniard.

BANGKOK — A Redshirt leader and former folk singer was sentenced Friday to one year in jail without suspension by the Supreme Court for defaming the former prime minister.