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Police arrested a Laotian man and three Thais on Monday for allegedly smuggling 7,996 methamphetamine pills from Laos to Bueng Kan province.

Police arrested a 60-year-old man on Tuesday for allegedly repeatedly raping a 14-year-old girl in Khon Kaen’s Si Chompu district.

A resident of Lampang’s Mae Moh district was arrested on Wednesday morning hours after he allegedly raped his friend’s mother who lives nearby.

A 24-year-old food vendor who was arrested on Tuesday morning over his illegal sideline of delivering ketamine, claimed that he had done it because he needed the cash to take care of his young daughter and pay long-overdue instalments on his motorcycle, according to police.

A Bangkok taxi driver was arrested on Sunday for allegedly stealing two luxury wristwatches worth Bt170,000 from his two passengers, who had dozed off, and then abandoning them at a bus stop on Borommaratchachonnani Road at 2am on August 10.

A British drug trafficker convicted over a $1.3 million narcotics ring has been arrested in Thailand after years on the run, police said Tuesday, the latest example of global underworld figures using the kingdom as a bolthole.

Police arrested a man with 900 kilograms of the illicit drug krathom, worth about 450,000 baht, at the Tah Chat Chai checkpoint on Saturday night.

A suspected key member of Japan’s Yakuza organised crime world was arrested in Bangkok yesterday on an Interpol red alert for his arrest warrant issued by authorities in Kobe, police said.

TWO Filipino brothers and politicians wanted in their country over the murder of a prominent anti-corruption crusader have been arrested in Phuket - three years after they first came to Thailand.