Crime, Courts, Calamity

PATTAYA — Cops were called in Wednesday night to apprehend a Caucasian man who went on a naked rampage in Central Pattaya.

BANGKOK — A man reportedly confessed Tuesday to fabricating a story that he was abducted and robbed of 80,000 baht by men wearing police vests.

BANGKOK — A senior commerce official on Monday admitted to stealing paintings from a hotel in Japan and announced his resignation.

BANGKOK — A man alleges he was abducted, assaulted and robbed of 80,000 baht by men wearing police vests early Tuesday morning northern Bangkok, a story that police are not fully buying.

BANGKOK — Thailand’s anti-graft agency is still working with its British counterpart to determine which officials took a billion baht in bribes from Rolls-Royce for over a decade, the agency’s chairman said Monday.

CHACHOENGSAO — A man faces four counts of first-degree murder after being arrested Sunday for allegedly throwing a hand grenade at a temple fair that killed four people.

PATTAYA — Theerayut Charoenpakdee was terrified when police stopped her outside a mall in Pattaya, the resort town famous for its sordid nightlife. A urine test on the spot revealed meth coursing through her veins.

SISAKET — Police arrested a monk Friday in Si Saket province after he hosted one too many teen drug parties at his temple.

BANGKOK — At least 30 families were living in tents Saturday after their homes in an impoverished quarter of Bangkok were destroyed in a blaze.

BANGKOK — Japanese authorities on Friday freed a Thai bureaucrat who was arrested for stealing three paintings from a hotel he was staying in Kyoto, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.