Special Service Division Police called after off duty policeman carrying gun seen roaming around Thalang housing estate

Thalang –

The Special Service Division Police were called after a policeman who was not on duty was seen carrying a gun and walking around at a private housing estate in Thalang which took nine hours to clear.

Colonel Pisit Chuenpet, the Thalang Police Chief, told the Phuket Express, “Yesterday, (October 10^th), we were notified from residents at 8:30 A.M. that a man who was acting erratically was walking around with a gun. He blocked the entrance of a private housing estate with a pickup truck. The man later hid in his house in the housing estate.”

“Special Service Division Officers and the Region 8 Police were called to the scene. At 3:20 P.M. the suspect came out still carrying a gun around the area. It took nine hours before Corporal Korn, 27, who is a Phang Nga Policeman, was able to be arrested. He was found with a handgun loaded with seven bullets and an additional 8 bullets in his pockets,” Colonel Pisit explained.

“The suspect was nervous after a recent argument with his girlfriend. He is facing charges of carrying a gun in public without reason,” Colonel Pisit added.

It was unclear if the suspect would face punitive charges related to his employment as a police officer.

Meanwhile a man high on methamphetamine was arrested after being found wandering around a private housing estate in Kathu.

An intoxicated armed man has been arrested after he was carrying a chicken while walking around all night on Coconut Island in Phuket, scaring local residents.

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