Somwang Rodkanphai
(center) tells Pol. Maj. Gen. Khatcha Thatsart (left) about the attack
on her 2 sons.
Boonlua Chatree
Chonburi police have a launched an investigation into allegations a
Nongprue police volunteer browbeat two youths with a gun.
Chonburi station superintendent Maj. Gen. Khatcha Thatsart said Dec. 10
he would order Banglamung and Nongprue commanders to investigate the
complaint by 49-year-old Somwang Rodkanphai, mother of the 19- and
20-year olds allegedly attacked.
Somwang said her sons Anupong and Aphinant Rermpong were driving home to
their Sukh-Aem Village house on Soi Khao Noi when they were stopped near
a rail crossing by a police volunteer and a commissioned police
sergeant-major.
The two refused a request from the volunteer to search them, arguing
that the private citizen had no legal right to do so. The refusal, she
said, angered the volunteer, who pulled a pistol from his waste and
repeatedly hit the two. Police volunteers are not legally allowed to
carry firearms.
The youths were treated at a local hospital and released.