Crime, Courts, Calamity

LOEI — A jet fighter pilot was severely injured after he ejected from an F-16 over Loei province under unknown circumstances Wednesday.

BANGKOK — A police spokesman confirmed reports that the military has detained seven people, including police officers, on suspicion of stealing more than 800 firearms from a border police depot in the northeast.

SAMUT PRAKAN— Two kilograms of cocaine hidden in shampoo bottles being smuggled by an Ecuadorian drug mule were intercepted at Suvarnabhumi Airport, police said Tuesday morning.

BANGKOK — Police on Friday filed a libel lawsuit against speakers of an academic forum for criticizing their performance.

BANGKOK — A 26-year-old Laotian man was arrested Monday evening after he robbed almost 300,000 baht from an unguarded bank using a toy gun.

BANGKOK — A man driving his friend’s 40 million baht Lamborghini lost control and totaled it in an early morning accident Monday in the Lat Phrao district. Four people were injured.

TRAT — Thai authorities on Saturday were still waiting for Cambodia to hand over the suspect in the murder of a British man last month at a Thai sports club.

PATTANI — A local official in Thailand's deep south was fatally shot Friday by heavily armed men who stopped him on his way to work, police said.

PATTAYA — The case of a Swedish tourist’s stolen motorbike took a surprising U-turn Friday afternoon with police insisting the man simply forgot where he parked the bike.

BANGKOK —A 50-year-old engineer who shot a 17-year-old student dead over a parking conflict begged out of a planned meeting with the authorities Friday. Suthep...