Crime, Courts, Calamity

CHONBURI — Police arrested a man in Chonburi province early this morning for stumbling around his neighborhood drunk and half-naked with a loaded shotgun.

BANGKOK — A massive operation launched by police to find the perpetrator behind last week’s deadly bombing has netted 142 people on unrelated crimes, while the bomber and possible accomplices remain elusive.

BANGKOK — A retired Naval commander has denied chaining a soldier placed in his service to a tire and accused the conscript of bad and bizarre behavior in a lengthy letter sent to the media Saturday.

CHONBURI — A 78-year-old German man was killed by a public van driver as he was crossing a road last night in Chonburi province.

BANGKOK — A reporter from Hong Kong charged with possessing body armor was released on bail today and has been forbidden from leaving the kingdom.

BANGKOK — Six days after a deadly bomb killed at least 20 people in Bangkok, police said yesterday their prime suspect in the attack may have successfully fled the country.

BANGKOK — Less than 30 minutes after a bomb exploded Monday night at the Erawan Shrine, a man dropped a bag into the water next to a footbridge near Sathorn Pier that could have been the device which exploded harmlessly the next afternoon.

By Todd Ruiz BANGKOK — Motorcycle taxi operators in an upscale, residential neighborhood have identified a man seen numerous times there between December and February as matching a passport photo shown to them by investigators hunting the suspected Bangkok bomber, who might have been using a fake Turkish passport.

BANGKOK — Thai police chief Somyot Pumpanmuang said yesterday he believes the deadly bombing that killed 20 people in Bangkok on Monday night was not a work of a foreign terrorist organization.

BANGKOK — Police have denied a news report earlier today claiming two witnesses who said they interacted with the suspected Bangkok bomber had positively identified him in a passport photo shown to them by authorities.