Crime, Courts, Calamity

(26 December) A woman in Chonburi province has died after she drank a cup of coffee spiked with rat poison by a wife who allegedly intended to kill her husband and his mistress.

CHONBURI — More than 100 people have been arrested for participating in an illegal football betting ring, police say.

CHONBURI — A motorcyclist allegedly mugged a 51-year-old Chinese tourist in Pattaya last night, stealing an estimated 50,000 baht worth of her belongings.

PATTANI — Thai authorities say they have found the bodies of two suspected separatists who escaped a raid conducted by police and soldiers in Pattani province yesterday.

(4 November) Rescue workers have discovered the remains of the ferry ship which has capsized off the coast in Pattaya on Sunday, killing at least six passengers and severely injuring 15 more, many of them foreign tourists.

ANG THONG — Police have arrested a monk in Ang Thong province after he was identified as the operator of a website that posts hidden-camera footage of women using the toilet.

KORAT — A professional football player in Nakhon Ratchasima province has been accused of breaking into a woman’s room early Friday morning and sexually assaulting her.

CHONBURI — A 17-year-old student is in a coma after falling through the roof a mall last night after climbing up to take photos with his friends.

PRACHINBURI — A soldier moonlighting as a cigarette smuggler hit and killed a man crossing a street last night while escaping customs officers in a car in Prachinburi city.

PHANG NGA — A man was shot dead by police after 21 Rohingya men escaped from a detention center in southern Thailand early Monday morning.