Crime, Courts, Calamity

CHIANG MAI — A 55-year-old man in Chiang Mai province hanged himself to death after the lottery tickets he purchased with his life savings failed to win any prize money.

SURAT THANI—A gunfight broke out between a volunteer police officer and a group of policemen at a bar on Koh Samui island early this morning, injuring two people.

SURAT THANI — Three Thai teenagers have been arrested for allegedly killing a 22-year-old Burmese man on the southern island of Koh Samui, despite a police officer's earlier suggestion that the killers must have also been Burmese.

CHONBURI — A local military unit in Pattaya invoked martial law to detain a woman who defied the nationwide ban on alcohol sales during a Buddhist holiday yesterday.

BANGKOK – Police arrested a monk in Bangkok yesterday for allegedly raping and blackmailing an 11-year-old girl.

CHIANG MAI — Two Thai men have been arrested for disguising as military officers and promising to grant Royal Thai Army ranks to more than 70 people who paid to participate in their two-month training program.

CHONBURI — A bar owner in Pattaya is under arrest for allegedly assaulting police officers who told him to close down his bar during a Buddhist holiday in Thailand.

CHONBURI — Police say a group of security guards at a nightclub in Pattaya assaulted three European tourists after a fight broke out inside the club.

BANGKOK (DPA) — Thai police arrested 89 people late Monday on cockfighting charges, officials confirmed.

BANGKOK — Police say they have arrested a top member of a Japanese crime syndicate who allegedly brought in more than 22 million baht in fraud schemes over the course of several months.