Officer under investigation for extortion charged over drugs in police raid

By Kittipong Maneerit 
The Nation

 

 

A traffic policeman in Bangkok’s Lumphini precinct, who allegedly forced a bogus drug charge against a Canadian national in attempt to extort money from the victim, has been dismissed from the civil service and faces a serious disciplinary probe in addition to a criminal investigation.
 

The constable-ranked officer – 46-year-old Pol Senior Sergeant Major Cherdchai Phuchuaythuam – was arrested on Monday, and 0.5 grams of crystal meth or “ice” and a pistol plus seven bullet were seized at an apartment in Sathorn district. Police also nabbed his alleged accomplice in the extortion, Chakrit Theeluay, 37 at the apartment. 

 

An urine test on both men found both were positive for substance abuse, said Tourist Police Bureau deputy chief Maj-General Surachet Hakpan, who led the operation.

 

They both were initially charged with conspiracy to illegally detain another person, having drugs in their possession and using drugs, while Cherdchai faced additional charges of illegal possession of a gun and carrying a weapon in public places.

 

Surachet said the arrest stemmed from a police complaint filed by a 25-year-old Canadian man, who worked as a foreign language school instructor. The complainant claimed to have been lured by a good-looking man from Facebook, with whom he was supposed to meet at his apartment on Sunday. But instead Cherdchai showed up at his door. When the Canadian resisted the stranger’s entry, the policeman forced his way in, detained him and tried to lay a charge of “ice” possession against the foreigner. 

 

The Canadian managed to flee from the building and went on to file the complaint with the Thung Mahamek precinct. 

 

Surachet said that an initial probe found that Cherdchai had been placed on probation several times over allegedly filing bogus drug charge against others.

 

This time, Cherdchai was dismissed from the civil service. City police chief Pol Lt-General Chanthep Sesawet also set up a fact-finding committee to probe whether Cherdchai's supervisors at the Lumphini precinct should also be punished for negligence in allowing the subordinate to commit a wrongdoing.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30337457

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-01-30

Always carry a spy cam.

Pen,glasses, tiny boxes, necklace all can be spy cams now not only mobile phones. Protect yourself against inhumanity.

Pathetic. This cop should spend the rest of his worthless life in jail as he has been rapped officially numerous time for trying to ruin the lives of innocent people.

How many times is acceptable for a cop to pull this stunt i wonder. Dirty scum ??

58 minutes ago, webfact said:

 

Surachet said that an initial probe found that Cherdchai had been placed on probation several times over allegedly filing bogus drug charge against others.

 

Been placed on probation several times??!!!! Come now, this shows a pattern of behaviour, is there a reason he was not charged on a previous occasion?

 

BTW good move by the Canadian to get out of his apartment and go straight to the police.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Cherdchai had been placed on probation several times over allegedly filing bogus drug charge against others.

How many times until the penny drops? 

fare play to the young farang, took a chance in reporting him.

The a "Adjectives" are getting a great airing today.....(probably due to a limited vocabulary).

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The complainant claimed to have been lured by a good-looking man from Facebook, with whom he was supposed to meet at his apartment

Brave. I wonder if his school know he's gay. I fear this young man may have some problems i.e school/future employment/police.

1 hour ago, z42 said:

Pathetic. This cop should spend the rest of his worthless life in jail as he has been rapped officially numerous time for trying to ruin the lives of innocent people.

How many times is acceptable for a cop to pull this stunt i wonder. Dirty scum ??

Apparently several. And maybe more unless the complaint becomes very public.

10 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Brave. I wonder if his school know he's gay. I fear this young man may have some problems i.e school/future employment/police.

 Not until you just told everyone.  It stated he was meeting a goodlooking man from facebook.

I'm goodlooking and am not gay

Just now, isaanbanhou said:

 Not until you just told everyone.  It stated he was meeting a goodlooking man from facebook.

I'm goodlooking and am not gay

I too, am Hansum man and not Gay.......On a serious note though, I wonder how far up the chain this particular scam went as he has already been placed on probation before.........

2 minutes ago, isaanbanhou said:

 Not until you just told everyone.  It stated he was meeting a goodlooking man from facebook.

I'm goodlooking and am not gay

Ok. My bad. I assumed, obviously incorrectly, that meeting a good looking man on FB and inviting him to your room is somehow gay. How could I come to such a conclusion. 

10 minutes ago, isaanbanhou said:

 Not until you just told everyone.  It stated he was meeting a goodlooking man from facebook.

I'm goodlooking and am not gay

So, do you meet men on FB and invite them to your room?

18 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

So, do you meet men on FB and invite them to your room?

#Me Too good looking man,

 I'm too sexy for my shirt
Too sexy for my shirt
So sexy it hurts
And I'm too sexy for Milan
Too sexy for Milan
New York, and Japan
I'm too sexy for your party
Too sexy for your party
No way I'm disco dancing......

19 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

So, do you meet men on FB and invite them to your room?

NO I have enough trouble with the women

Maybe the FB gay man ordered a 'bent copper'  ?

2 hours ago, Chang_paarp said:

Been placed on probation several times??!!!! Come now, this shows a pattern of behaviour, is there a reason he was not charged on a previous occasion?

 

BTW good move by the Canadian to get out of his apartment and go straight to the police.

I'm surprised he wasn't just transferred to an 'inactive post'.

2 hours ago, rkidlad said:

How many times until the penny drops? 

It never seems to here, see the same mistakes over and over, those people who wreck their cars/pick ups in accidents  still "don't know why"

Brave. I wonder if his school know he's gay. I fear this young man may have some problems i.e school/future employment/police.

Why? Lots of teachers are gay.

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43 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

So, do you meet men on FB and invite them to your room?

don t have facebook  and not into meeting men. 

Who meets someone then invites them sight unseen up to the room for sex? Wouldn't it make sense to meet them outside to check them out first?

3 minutes ago, soistalker said:

Who meets someone then invites them sight unseen up to the room for sex? Wouldn't it make sense to meet them outside to check them out first?

Yes, that would just be common sense. Some people don't have it.

1 hour ago, dinsdale said:

Brave. I wonder if his school know he's gay. I fear this young man may have some problems i.e school/future employment/police.

 

bit of a disturbing tangent. where does it say he is gay?

 

what is the correlation between being good looking and being gay? please provide evidence to support your comment?

 

why would being gay create problems with 'school/future employment/police'? again please provide evidence.

 

oh yes... i'm good looking, does that make me gay in your judgemental world?

1 hour ago, dinsdale said:

Brave. I wonder if his school know he's gay. I fear this young man may have some problems i.e school/future employment/police.

Why?

 

It's not illegal to be gay here... so why would the police, employer or school care?

 

School near me has a ladyboy teacher.  My friend is a Tom and she works in a government school.  I know gay guys who are teachers and I suspect gay people also can have other jobs too.  

50 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

So, do you meet men on FB and invite them to your room?

I'm reading a story about a policeman who tried to ruin a young guys life by planting drugs on him. 

You are reading a story about a gay man asking to meet someone off facebook. 

If I was to guess which one of us is gay, I'd say you are currently in first place.

7 minutes ago, berybert said:

I'm reading a story about a policeman who tried to ruin a young guys life by planting drugs on him. 

You are reading a story about a gay man asking to meet someone off facebook. 

If I was to guess which one of us is gay, I'd say you are currently in first place.

 

That the policeman is a criminal is truth, that the schoolteacher is gay is speculation or wishful thinking and totally irrelevant.

Thai cops thats how they do it, try and scare you into giving money to them, me I just make an example out of them, then they hit the CCA and I just laugh at the rotten sods

1 hour ago, isaanbanhou said:

 Not until you just told everyone.  It stated he was meeting a goodlooking man from facebook.

I'm goodlooking and am not gay

Those two statements are not facts lol

28 minutes ago, soistalker said:

Who meets someone then invites them sight unseen up to the room for sex? Wouldn't it make sense to meet them outside to check them out first?

You don't know much about Gay people lol

1 hour ago, isaanbanhou said:

I'm goodlooking and am not gay

Who told you this- your mum?