Flat owner attacked by gang of ten men with guns: Police suspect marijuana deal gone wrong

[webfact]

Picture: Thai Rath

 

The owner of a flat in Thonburi was brutally assaulted by a gang of ten men with rifles or war weapons who attacked him at his residence on Friday night.

 

The victim knew the assailants and even willingly opened the door to them.

 

Shots were fired in warning and then he was pistol whipped causing injuries that required 60 stitches. 

 

Before the gang fled they collected the spent cartridges. 

 

The incident was followed by a post on the page of a famous lawyer calling for the Tha Kham police to get cracking and solve the crime.

 

It happened at some electricity authority flats in Rama 2 Soi 6 in the Bang Khun Thian area of western Bangkok, reported Thai Rath.

 

Chief of the local police Lertsak Khiamsap said that it concerned a conflict over a marijuana deal. 

 

The victim was arrested in the past by Region 9 metropolitan police for drugs and had assets seized.

 

Police are waiting to interview the victim when he has sufficiently recovered but say they know the identity of the assailants.

 

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[Iamfalang]

Are you saying getting involved in the drug trade is risky?    I remember prohibition and there were gangs trying to control the supply.   

 

Cash business involves guns...........let's not kid ourselves.   

 

Try tracing drugs............it's probably not easy.  Maybe with ganja you can figure out the strain, who knows.  

 

Once I hacked North Korea and took 10 billion in Bitcoins...........you want to swim with the sharks falang???!?!?!?!??!

[Liverpool Lou]

58 minutes ago, Iamfalang said:

Are you saying getting involved in the drug trade is risky?    I remember prohibition and there were gangs trying to control the supply.   

 

Cash business involves guns...........let's not kid ourselves.   

 

Try tracing drugs............it's probably not easy.  Maybe with ganja you can figure out the strain, who knows.  

 

Once I hacked North Korea and took 10 billion in Bitcoins...........you want to swim with the sharks falang???!?!?!?!??!

What?

[SunnyinBangrak]

The gangsters missed the memo that marijuana was now legal? More likely it was due to other reasons, revenge, hard drugs or women possibly. But over a few joints, doubtful.

[RichardColeman]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Before the gang fled they collected the spent cartridges. 

I'd have thought a gang would not care, but maybe the local police know more than they are telling

[BangkokReady]

7 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

What?

Is there someone we can call to check on him?  He seems to be having a bit of a moment this morning... ????

[BangkokReady]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

a gang of ten men with rifles or war weapons

"The men were seen fleeing with horse-draw canon and a trebuchet..."

[connda]

There is a real push to demonize and therefore ban cannabis.

Marijuana deal gone wrong?  It's legal. 
More likely?  A methamphetamine deal gone wrong.  But nowadays every time a tweeker goes mad it will be blamed on marijuana until they make it illegal again. 

[stoner]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Before the gang fled they collected the spent cartridges. 

me thinks popo has a little back end on this one. for weed ? hahahah don't print such nonsense. 

 

who collects their spent casings ? no one in the history of a bad weed deal....can barely remember where i put my bong.

[bobbin]

8 minutes ago, stoner said:

me thinks popo has a little back end on this one. for weed ? hahahah don't print such nonsense. 

 

who collects their spent casings ? no one in the history of a bad weed deal....can barely remember where i put my bong.

who collects their spent casing?

 

Smart people..   ????

[Bert got kinky]

33 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

What?

 

I believe that he is replying to the post seventeen places below his own post.

 

[stoner]

1 minute ago, bobbin said:

who collects their spent casing?

 

Smart people..   ????

exactly. not a bunch of weed thieves. something smells dank here and it aint the nuggets. 

[Gecko123]

46 minutes ago, connda said:

Marijuana deal gone wrong?  It's legal. 

Legal or not, it's still a commodity that has value, right?

[Bert got kinky]

3 minutes ago, Gecko123 said:

Legal or not, it's still a commodity that has value, right?

 

So is oregano.

 

[rwill]

2 hours ago, stoner said:

who collects their spent casings ?

Maybe to sell to a recycler.  Help to buy new bullets.

[Bert got kinky]

3 hours ago, stoner said:

me thinks popo has a little back end on this one. for weed ? hahahah don't print such nonsense. 

 

who collects their spent casings ? no one in the history of a bad weed deal....can barely remember where i put my bong.

who collects their spent casings ?

To the yell of "pick up your brass", the British Army.

 

[Rhys]

WAD, he did not display his WEED FOR ALL shop prominently over the store? 

[Aussieroaming]

Telling the RTP to get cracking and solve the crime. 

 

First question would be who supplied the weapons? They look rather paramilitary or police in origin. Maybe the king pin is a member of the constabulary.

 

 

[MrJ2U]

8 hours ago, connda said:

There is a real push to demonize and therefore ban cannabis.

Marijuana deal gone wrong?  It's legal. 
More likely?  A methamphetamine deal gone wrong.  But nowadays every time a tweeker goes mad it will be blamed on marijuana until they make it illegal again. 

First thought also.

 

Definitely meth. 

[hotchilli]

19 hours ago, webfact said:

Police are waiting to interview the victim when he has sufficiently recovered but say they know the identity of the assailants.

Who no doubt will have fled far and wide by now?