Crime crackdown launched ahead of mobile cabinet meeting in Hua Hin

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Crime crackdown launched ahead of mobile cabinet meeting in Hua Hin



HUA HIN: -- Police seized 158 guns and arrested 1,730 suspects in a major crime crackdown in Prachuab Khiri Khan ahead of a mobile cabinet meeting tomorrow and Saturday.

The crackdown followed last week’s discovery of a large stash of explosives, including high-powered TNT and C4 in gunny bags dumped in bushes about two kilometers from the site of the cabinet meeting.

The seized weapons which are mostly rifles include licensed and illegal guns, 1,176 rounds of ammunition, one AK47 assault rifle and one M3 submachine gun.

Of the 1,730 suspects apprehended, 180 of them were involved with weapons.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/crime-crackdown-launched-ahead-of-mobile-cabinet-meeting-in-hua-hin


-- Thai PBS 2015-03-26

[clockman]

Gun toting Buddhists! Thainess

[recycled]

Now that this little charade along with finding the alleged stash of high explosives dumped in bushes last week has played out, they will all be returned to the police armory where they most likely came from.

Stash = hoard (noun) hide, hoard (verb). If somebody has a stash of weapons for sinister purposes they would have been hidden not just dumped.....

1,730 suspects arrested - apprehended (which one is it? Being apprehended means you are taken to the police station for questioning. Being arrested means you are formally charged.) and not one photo of or finger pointing at the accused.

Police seized 158 guns and arrested 1,730 suspects. Of the 1,730 suspects apprehended, 180 of them were involved with weapons. So one has to make more presumptions in that there must be more than one person volunteering to own one of the guns for the sake of the exercise.

How do you get so many arrest warrants for so many unarmed individuals and why do you arrest them if they haven't done anything wrong?

Where are they all being held or have they all been bailed. Is it too much to ask the media to do some basic 101 investigative journalism to report the real news.

More than likely the way it operates under the junta is as follows: Journo's sit on their fat ass at HQ drinking coffee, full days stories are emailed to them by General Pepe Le Pew, they are interpreted into primary school English, passed to the editor, prioritized and printed.

[darrendsd]

Gun toting Buddhists! Thainess

Groan, it's that Thainess word again

[Felipesed]

Why not ask Thai PBS instead of allowing your over-fertile imagination to create silly theories with which to bore TV members?

Edited March 26, 2015 by Felipesed

[trogers]

Now that this little charade along with finding the alleged stash of high explosives dumped in bushes last week has played out, they will all be returned to the police armory where they most likely came from.

Stash = hoard (noun) hide, hoard (verb). If somebody has a stash of weapons for sinister purposes they would have been hidden not just dumped.....

1,730 suspects arrested - apprehended (which one is it? Being apprehended means you are taken to the police station for questioning. Being arrested means you are formally charged.) and not one photo of or finger pointing at the accused.

Police seized 158 guns and arrested 1,730 suspects. Of the 1,730 suspects apprehended, 180 of them were involved with weapons. So one has to make more presumptions in that there must be more than one person volunteering to own one of the guns for the sake of the exercise.

How do you get so many arrest warrants for so many unarmed individuals and why do you arrest them if they haven't done anything wrong?

Where are they all being held or have they all been bailed. Is it too much to ask the media to do some basic 101 investigative journalism to report the real news.

More than likely the way it operates under the junta is as follows: Journo's sit on their fat ass at HQ drinking coffee, full days stories are emailed to them by General Pepe Le Pew, they are interpreted into primary school English, passed to the editor, prioritized and printed.

You forgotten to mention that lead box of green krytonite...

[eddie61]

more BIBs than guns

Edited March 26, 2015 by eddie61

[Srikcir]

This kind of weapons haul in western nations wouldn't even make the local gazette newspaper.

[NongKhaiKid]

" The PMs coming ! Hurry up and look busy. "

[SOUTHERNSTAR]

They must have a special unit that moves the weapons around for each "bust". I live here and there were no road blocks no extra police activity - but the weapons keep on popping out.

[luckyman]

Now that this little charade along with finding the alleged stash of high explosives dumped in bushes last week has played out, they will all be returned to the police armory where they most likely came from.

Stash = hoard (noun) hide, hoard (verb). If somebody has a stash of weapons for sinister purposes they would have been hidden not just dumped.....

1,730 suspects arrested - apprehended (which one is it? Being apprehended means you are taken to the police station for questioning. Being arrested means you are formally charged.) and not one photo of or finger pointing at the accused.

Police seized 158 guns and arrested 1,730 suspects. Of the 1,730 suspects apprehended, 180 of them were involved with weapons. So one has to make more presumptions in that there must be more than one person volunteering to own one of the guns for the sake of the exercise.

How do you get so many arrest warrants for so many unarmed individuals and why do you arrest them if they haven't done anything wrong?

Where are they all being held or have they all been bailed. Is it too much to ask the media to do some basic 101 investigative journalism to report the real news.

More than likely the way it operates under the junta is as follows: Journo's sit on their fat ass at HQ drinking coffee, full days stories are emailed to them by General Pepe Le Pew, they are interpreted into primary school English, passed to the editor, prioritized and printed.

From your questions I take it you are not that long here, yet ?

Still a lot to learn, hey ?

In many third world countries, especially the ones located in South America and Africa, the government has links with the underworld and the mafia.

In Thailand the government is the mafia.

Edited March 27, 2015 by luckyman

[luckyman]

They must have a special unit that moves the weapons around for each "bust". I live here and there were no road blocks no extra police activity - but the weapons keep on popping out.

Not correct.

When coming from Pranburi towards Hua Hin, at Kao Tao there was a massive road block on Petkasem Rd. near Soi 156, approx. 4 km from suanson where the meeting will be held today, with more than 40 police officers, no army in sight.

Another one on the Hua Hin-Pala U Road all day yesterday too...

[rodknock]

after the meeting, business as usual!!

what a show!

who gets all the money after the sale of the weapons!!

[Felipesed]

They must have a special unit that moves the weapons around for each "bust". I live here and there were no road blocks no extra police activity - but the weapons keep on popping out.

y

I think you are lying, or do not go out of your house.

[recycled]

Now that this little charade along with finding the alleged stash of high explosives dumped in bushes last week has played out, they will all be returned to the police armory where they most likely came from.

Stash = hoard (noun) hide, hoard (verb). If somebody has a stash of weapons for sinister purposes they would have been hidden not just dumped.....

1,730 suspects arrested - apprehended (which one is it? Being apprehended means you are taken to the police station for questioning. Being arrested means you are formally charged.) and not one photo of or finger pointing at the accused.

Police seized 158 guns and arrested 1,730 suspects. Of the 1,730 suspects apprehended, 180 of them were involved with weapons. So one has to make more presumptions in that there must be more than one person volunteering to own one of the guns for the sake of the exercise.

How do you get so many arrest warrants for so many unarmed individuals and why do you arrest them if they haven't done anything wrong?

Where are they all being held or have they all been bailed. Is it too much to ask the media to do some basic 101 investigative journalism to report the real news.

More than likely the way it operates under the junta is as follows: Journo's sit on their fat ass at HQ drinking coffee, full days stories are emailed to them by General Pepe Le Pew, they are interpreted into primary school English, passed to the editor, prioritized and printed.

From your questions I take it you are not that long here, yet ?

Still a lot to learn, hey ?

In many third world countries, especially the ones located in South America and Africa, the government has links with the underworld and the mafia.

In Thailand the government is the mafia.

No, not long, married my Mon wife from Ratchaburi in 1971, I have 3 children and 5 grandchildren part Thai. Retired living in mid north Thailand.

From your comments you seem to be a little naive, the piece I wrote was more tongue in cheek than an inquiry. I probably forgot more about Thailand than you have learnt, hey! Don't surmise, it can be mistaken for arrogance.