Two vocational students arrested for alleged involvement in stealing Payoong wood

 

Two Nong Khai vocational students were arrested by police in Khon Kaen as they and three other alleged accomplices who escaped were illegally cutting a Siamese rosewood (Payoong) tree in the compound of a temple of Khon Kaen’s Ban Fang district Thursday night.

 

Police however seized a pickup truck loaded with five Payoong logs, one chain saw and three mobile phones which were abandoned at the compound of Wat Buddha Silanimit by the illegal loggers.

 

The two arrested students whose names were withheld by the police reportedly told the police that they heard from some friends at the college that a Mr Wiriya Kamnan wanted to find someone to help in delivering Payoong wood in Khon Kaen with an offer of 1,000 baht each.

 

Apparently in need of money for their tuition fee, the two students accepted the job and went to Khon Kaen with Mr Wiraya and two other men in a pick-up truck.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/two-vocational-students-arrested-alleged-involvement-stealing-payoong-wood/

 

 

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