Thursday 13th November 2008
Two men arrested following murder of Drug Dealer in Sriracha.
On Thursday Morning, Police Lieutenant Colonel Suwanporn, Deputy Chief of Sriracha Police Station held a press conference to announce the arrest of two men accused of the murder of a local drug dealer. The two men, Khun Saeksun aged 41 and Khun Jackgrit aged 27 are thought to be part of a 4 man gang who brutally murdered Khun Sha-on aged 43 on 2nd November in a small village in Sriracha District. The body was discovered by Police in an abandoned car. The identity of the four man gang was known by Police at an early stage in the murder investigation and a man hunt begun with the eventual arrest of two of the suspects, who were found in possession of firearms thought to have been used in the shooting, on Wednesday Evening. It is thought the shooting took place because the victim implicated the four men in a number of drug related cases, even though the men paid the victims bail money earlier in the month after he was arrested and charged with dealing in class 1 drugs by Sriracha Police. The two arrestees are now facing lengthy jail terms if found guilty of murdering Khun Sha-on.
