Cha-Am: Two arrests for illegal weapons as police mount New Year crime crackdown at rodeo event

[webfact]

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Thai media 77kaoded reported that the Cha-Am police chief Pol Col Wayuphak Wongsakdirin personally led a team of police to a "wua lan" or cow rodeo event in the area last night.

 

The officers mobilized at Wat Nong Kham in Huay Sai Neua were on the lookout for drugs and illegal weapons as part of a New Year crime crackdown.

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Two arrests were made of Thai men with a Colt 45 and a Sig Sauer handgun.

 

ASEAN NOW notes that a rodeo event in the area was the scene of a fatal shooting a while back with a supect later arrested for murder. 

 

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[300sd]

Bet on the last cow standing. Some rodeo!

[worgeordie]

Just cowboys , they always have guns ......????

regards worgeordie

[Burma Bill]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

a Colt 45 and a Sig Sauer handgun

Fake or genuine???

 

 Pellet firing replica of the famous Sig Sauer P226

 

 

[Stargeezr]

Thailand has Rodeos?  I wonder what the bull riding looks like?