Police rule out murder or serious crime after US owner of buried BMW is located safe and well

[webfact]

On Wednesday, 3rd February, Deputy National Police Commissioner General Suchart Teerasawat, also known as ‘Big Mai’, flew, by helicopter, to Nakhon Si Thammarat. He was there to meet with senior police officers in the Chaloem Phra Kiat district investigating the appearance of a buried BMW car, in a rainstorm, once owned by an American teacher in Phuket, 52-year-old Michael Dylan Gregory. The investigation has established that Mr Gergory, who left Thailand ten years ago, is alive and well but is still probing the mystery of why the car was buried, believing the circumstance to be ‘ highly suspicious’ and indicative of criminal activity.

 

by James Morris and Son Nguyen

 

Car owned by Phuket based US teacher Michael Dylan Gregory who lived in Thailand until February 2012 was de-registered in 2010 and was the subject of a court order issued to Kasikorn Leasing in 2011 for its seizure. An intensive police probe continues in Nakhon Si Thammarat after catching the attention of Deputy National Police Chief General Suchart Teerasawat or ‘Big Mai’.

 

Police are investigating if a luxury BMW car owned by a 52-year-old American, found suspiciously buried in a Nakhon Si Thammarat palm oil plantation on Tuesday, was linked to a gang active in the Chaloem Phra Kiat district of the province involved in cutting up luxury cars for spare parts. It comes after they tracked the US man down through international police agencies and confirmed that he was safe and alive.

 

Senior police in Nakhon Si Thammarat, on Thursday, were expressing relief that the discovery of a BMW car found buried in an oil plantation in the Chaloem Phra Kiat district of the provice does not appear to be connected with a serious crime or, as it had been feared initially, murder.

 

Full story: https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2022/02/03/murder-ruled-out-us-man-bmw-found-buried/

 

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[RandiRona]

Now that American will be charged for not so environment friendly way of disposing.

[Thaiwrath]

52 minutes ago, webfact said:

they tracked the US man down through international police agencies

I wonder if they could use the same system in tracking any other, one in particular, luxury car owners ?

[Hayduke]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

An intensive police probe continues in Nakhon Si Thammarat after catching the attention of Deputy National Police Chief General Suchart Teerasawat or ‘Big Mai’.

 

Big Mai is now p*ssed he flew all the way to Nakhon Si Thammarat for a BMW that’s not worth confiscating.

 

 

 

Edited February 4, 2022 by Hayduke

[TheFishman1]

It’s amazing how fast they found the owner of the BMW the Red Bull kid hasn’t been found in so many years but I guess after the  Thai statue of limitation Runs out he’ll be driving the streets and Bangkok and the brand new Ferrari TIT

[Ralf001]

1 minute ago, TheFishman1 said:

It’s amazing how fast they found the owner of the BMW the Red Bull kid hasn’t been found in so many years but I guess after the  Thai statue of limitation Runs out he’ll be driving the streets and Bangkok and the brand new Ferrari TIT

You'd have to be dumb to think officials don't know where Khun Boss lives.

 

If they really wanted to arrest him they could grab him on one of his many visits to Thailand.

[IAMHERE]

BIB should check on 'hit and run' unsolved from ten years ago. Especially if pieces of a BMW were left at the scene.

[JeffersLos]

4 hours ago, Hayduke said:

 

Big Mai is now p*ssed he flew all the way to Nakhon Si Thammarat for a BMW that’s not worth confiscating.

 

I've got a feeling he either met, or took a mia noi. 

[GreasyFingers]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Senior police in Nakhon Si Thammarat, on Thursday, were expressing relief that the discovery of a BMW car found buried in an oil plantation in the Chaloem Phra Kiat district of the provice does not appear to be connected with a serious crime

A car is buried and they think it is just a normal thing to do.

[Aussieroaming]

Bury My Wheels is not the slogan that BMW were aiming for.

[bangon04]

5 hours ago, Aussieroaming said:

Bury My Wheels is not the slogan that BMW were aiming for.

maybe it is just an anti-corrosion test - it belongs in the BMW museum.