CSD commandos search former Thai MP's house

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CSD commandos search former MP’s house in Uthai Thani



BANGKOK: -- Over a hundred Bangkok-based Crime Suppression Division (CSD) commando police conducted simultaneous searches of 12 places in Uthai Thani's Muang and Sawang-arom districts in an effort to crack down on gun-related crimes which were on the rise recently.

The operation was aimed at the networks of 2-3 influential groups in the province which the police said were responsible for the surge of crimes.

Four places which included the house of the former Chart Thai Pattana party’s MP Chada Thaiset were searched after police received information that a suspected hired gunman was hiding there.

The gunman, Nirund Puengsampao, was among a group of gunmen responsible for shooting dead the police chief of Sai Ngam district of Kamphaeng Phet province in April in 2011. The shooting happened in front of the police officer’s house in Nakhon Sawan province.

But the suspected gunman was not found.

Only the former MP’s sister who is a mayor of Uthai Thani municipality was in the house.

She denied the gunman was hiding in the house and saud she didn’t know him.

But she said her brother might know the suspected gunman because he was well-known in the province as he was a former MP.

She also said only outsiders would look at her family as influential while local people saw differently.

However police said they had information that the former MP was acquainted with the gunman.

A handgun and ammunition were found in the house but all were all legally registered.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/csd-commandos-search-former-mps-house-in-uthai-thani

-- Thai PBS 2015-07-23

[trogers]

Amazing range of hunting weapons...

Preparing to meet Godzilla?

[pinkpanther99]

That is an incredible cache of weapons to just have lying around your house.

This should result in a lengthy prison sentence.

I wont hold my breath.

[bangkokfrog]

The guy sitting in the middle looks rather confused about it all...

[tx22cb]

Is this the "Popcorn" gunman?

[dictater]

Ok, but why the wooden buffalo head? What law does that break. These are things that get lumped together which makes the real laws meaningless. Like people thinking playing cards are illegal because they can be used to gamble. So now if you have one of these ugly wooden buffalo heads it must mean that your holding cache of illegal weapons as well?

[ramrod711]

But the suspected gunman was not found.

They should have called ahead of time......Oh, maybe someone did.

[ikke]

"A handgun and ammunition were found in the house but all were all legally registered."

So the picture was from another search ??

[Just1Voice]

So, in other words, a "big deal" that resulted in nothing.

[sammygood]

if i were him, i would claim it was props for a new action movie

case closed

[SOTIRIOS]

...sick....

...this is really a 'free-for-all'....

[Ricardo]

One of the pictures in the OP-article appears to show tiger-skins ?

[kotsak]

Taxidermy gone wrong..

[Artisi]

That is an incredible cache of weapons to just have lying around your house.

This should result in a lengthy prison sentence.

I wont hold my breath.

Did you read the news article VERY carefully?

Edited July 23, 2015 by Artisi

[allan michaud]

Ok, but why the wooden buffalo head? What law does that break. These are things that get lumped together which makes the real laws meaningless. Like people thinking playing cards are illegal because they can be used to gamble. So now if you have one of these ugly wooden buffalo heads it must mean that your holding cache of illegal weapons as well?

fyi, the wooden head has the horns of a Gaur attached to it, it is illegal to hunt this endangered animal, similarly the stuffed leopard.

[sandrabbit]

_{what is the microphone with the orange pop filter amongst the shotguns for, has it been involved in drive by advertising?.}

Edited July 23, 2015 by sandrabbit

[kannot]

probably off on a trip to Japan with fresh supplies

[sandrabbit]

One of the pictures in the OP-article appears to show tiger-skins ?

yes and one of them a white tiger skin ..........

[Emster23]

Paltry amount wouldn't raise an eyebrow in Texas.

[glasswort]

Confusing picture, headline and report. The report indicates "A handgun and ammunition were found in the house but all were all legally registered." So where were the weapons etc. that are shown in the picture actually found? At a different location altogether presumably? Totally inaccurate reporting yet again. What happened to editing?

[Lupatria]

Only learn from the best?

[wvavin]

With this arsenal and just 4 persons are sufficient enough to take down a district level police station.

[sabaii69]

Amazing range of hunting weapons...

Preparing to meet Godzilla?

buffalo horns can be very dangerous. String im' up

[Lupatria]

_{what is the microphone with the orange pop filter amongst the shotguns for, has it been involved in drive by advertising?.}

...secret weapon for use in Karaoke brawls.

[Bluespunk]

"She also said only outsiders would look at her family as influential while local people saw differently."

Yes, they see you as feudal overlords.

[casualbiker]

What sniper rifle is that?

[Lopchan]

Ok, but why the wooden buffalo head? What law does that break. These are things that get lumped together which makes the real laws meaningless. Like people thinking playing cards are illegal because they can be used to gamble. So now if you have one of these ugly wooden buffalo heads it must mean that your holding cache of illegal weapons as well?

Not a buffalo head, it's a stuffed Gaur head. They're protected

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaur

[Lopchan]

What sniper rifle is that?

Looks a little like a Steyr.Not a sniper rifle. GP.

Thai army uses them...begs the question how did he get it?

[casualbiker]

Really.. In the other picture on the main Op it's got a long barrel for an assault rifle.. I think it's a Barrett M90

[Ricardo]

Confusing picture, headline and report. The report indicates "A handgun and ammunition were found in the house but all were all legally registered." So where were the weapons etc. that are shown in the picture actually found? At a different location altogether presumably? Totally inaccurate reporting yet again. What happened to editing?

"simultaneous searches of 12 places in Uthai Thani's Muang and Sawang-arom districts"

from the OP, they searched eleven other places, as well.