Man Arrested With Bombs And War Weapons In Lop Buri

[waerth]

http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/man-arrested-bombs-war-weapons-lop-buri/

 

BANGKOK: -- A man was arrested in Lop Buri late Tuesday night with a sizeable amount of ammunition and explosives and a war weapon.

 

A combined police and army troops raided a house in Nong Muang district owned by Mr Chaowarat Thongpuek after a tipoff that explosives and illegal weapons were hidden in it.

 

Search of the house uncovered one AK47 assault rifles with 800 rounds of ammunition, 156 11-mm cartridges, one ounce of TNT explosives and several items of bomb-making materials.

 

The suspect told police that he was hired by someone to make bombs to be used to disrupt protests in Bangkok. He also said that he had already delivered one consignment of bombs to his employer in Bangkok.

 

Meanwhile, army troops and police conducted extensive searches for explosives and illegal weapons which might be smuggled into Bangkok from neighbouring provinces. Roadblocks have been set up on Asian highway and Paholyothin road in Ayutthaya and Saraburi provinces in an attempt to stem the flow of illegal firearms which were suspected to be used to stir up violence in Bangkok.

[Flashermac]

[Specialist]

The Bangkok Post had better coverage.

[Flashermac]

Usually does, since the Post is the last to come out with any story.

 

English News is usually the first, then The Nation. Finally, the Post ... but in well edited English.

[jitagawn]

Lets see... the military ok took over yesterday and all of a sudden large weapons stashes are being found

.Hmmm

[Flashermac]

Couldn't be because CAPO never wanted to look, could it?

[Flashermac]

Snips:

 

"SAMUT SAKHON - Soldiers seized a small arsenal of firearms, ammunition and explosives from the dormitory room of a 44-year-old woman on Wednesday morning. Two red-shirt membership cards were also found.

 

In Lop Buri a former army ranger was detained along with a cache of guns, ammunition and many improvised explosive devices he admitted were destined for Bangkok.

 

...

 

Inside the room the soldiers found a small arsenal that included an AK-47 equipped with a scope, an M79 grenade launcher, a machine pistol, a carbine, a pistol, eight improvised explosive devices, 12 grenades, nine of them for an M-79 launcher), a grenade launcher, 120 bottles of nitroglycerin and body armour. "

 

Plus 1,200 rounds ...

 

"The reports said they also found a scarf with the logo of the red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), a UDD membership card and a UDD security guard's card."

 

The guy arrested in Lopburi was also an ex-ranger.

 

Lots of pics ...

 

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/411022/caches-of-firearms-ammunition-and-explosives-seized-in-raids-in-lop-buri-and-samut-sakhon

[Flashermac]

Just announced that the army has arrested one of the gunmen from the Ramkhamhaeng University violence in late November. Strange that the police had been unable to find any of them during the last 5 months.

 

[Flashermac]

Large haul of weapons found

 

 

ACTING UNDER the martial law, joint teams of military and police officers launched raids at three locations to hunt for war weapons thought to have been readied for possible outbreaks of violence.

 

The first raid was launched at 11.30pm on Tuesday in Lop Buri's Nong Muang district. During the raid, Chaowat Thongphuek, 54, was arrested for possessing a large number of weapons including nine home-made bombs and a TNT stick along with an AK-47 assault rifle and a large amount of ammunition.

 

Chaowat, a former paramilitary ranger, reportedly confessed to acquiring the weapons and having been hired by a couple - whom he identified as Nanthana and Chatcharn - to make bombs to be used in relation to political violence in the capital.

 

The explosives discovered were three metal pipe bombs, five plastic pipe bombs and one bomb contained in a metal box. The other items included an anti-personnel Claymore mine, 11 sets of detonators and lots of ammunition for different kinds of other weapons.

 

The second raid was conducted yesterday in an apartment in Samut Sakhon's Krathum Baen district, where the police-military team arrested a female tenant for possessing a large cache of weapons.

 

The woman, JanthanaWarakornsakulkij, admitted to owning the weapons but said the two membership cards for the pro-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship found in her room were not hers, but had been issued to a friend. She later said the weapons were meant to be used for self-defence.

 

Janthana and her roommate had not been charged with any specific offence as of press time. However, the woman and her cache of weapons were later taken to the Army Club to meet Army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha, before a press conference about her arrest was arranged.

 

The weapons found in her room included five assault rifles, an M79 grenade launcher, a large amount of ammunition, three hand grenades, explosives contained in 120 bottles, eight home-made bombs, a pistol, a bullet-proof vest, and nails and metal wires meant as shrapnel for the home-made bombs.

 

The third raid was at a home in Soi Rachadaphisek 32 in Bangkok. Phaholyothin police said they had received a phone call from an unnamed owner of the house, saying his property had been broken into. Later when they searched the house they found 140 rounds for an M16 assault rifle and two dummy hand grenades.

 

A series of raids had been conducted before the martial law was announced on Tuesday, including one at a Nakhon Nayok resort this week where a large number of assault rifles were found, though only two were retrieved openly by police.

 

 

 

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Large-haul-of-weapons-found-30234252.html

[Specialist]

Sounds to me like somebody knew something, and they've known it for a while.

 

Which raises nasty questions about other somebodies.