Crime, Courts, Calamity

RANONG — Prasong Hun-ngam was behind the wheel of his truck, driving a full load of frozen shrimp along a jungle road from the gulf to the Andaman Sea on Wednesday night when some men waved at him from beside a stopped car.

BANGKOK — Police submitted their case Thursday to the prosecutor’s office against two men accused of stabbing a young man to death to steal his iPhone in northern Bangkok earlier this month.

CHACHOENGSAO — A Thai man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of posing as a tourism official to rob a lost tourist seeking help in Chachoengsao province last week.

BANGKOK — A teacher imprisoned for a year and a half for killing a motorcyclist on the road has gone public with a story of injustice and police incompetence that a court will soon hear.

PATTAYA — A bar owner in the resort town of Pattaya was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of forcing a minor into prostitution at an establishment police said served a foreign clientele.

BANGKOK — Highway access between the north and south of Thailand was reopened to service Wednesday after being cut off by heavy flooding, leaving thousands of people stranded, some for two days.

BANGKOK — A police station chief was being questioned Wednesday for allegedly ordering the kidnapping and possible murder of a woman in Bangkok last month with whom he was romantically involved.

BANGKOK — Friends of jailed pro-democracy activist Jatupat “Pai” Boonpattaraksa are stepping up their campaign to see him freed on bail.

BANGKOK — Arrest warrants were issued Tuesday afternoon for a police station commander suspected of arranging for the kidnapping and murder of a woman in Bangkok.

BANGKOK — The family of a Japanese tourist is pleading for information concerning his whereabout after they lost contact with him three weeks ago while he was traveling in Bangkok.