Civil-defense volunteer Bancha
Pimyoying, brought in for molesting a woman on Beach Road, has been released
with a warning.
Theerarak Suthathiwong
A Pattaya civil-defense volunteer was arrested for molesting
a woman on Beach Road, but was released after a co-worker said he wasn’t right
in the head.
A drunk Bancha Pimyoying, 43, and his drinking buddy,
Thappraya civil-defense volunteer Pichet Rumruay, 31, were apprehended on Beach
Road at Soi 6 after midnight Nov. 2. They were positively identified by a
30-year-old woman identified only as “Ann” as the two men who had stopped her in
front of the Mike Shopping Mall. As they blocked her way, she said, Bancha
squeezed her breast, than fled on a motorbike.
Bancha confessed to assaulting the woman, but was defended by
a fellow volunteer, who claimed the man charged with ensuring safety in Pattaya
hasn’t been quite right ever since sustaining a head injury.
Ann declined to press charges under the condition the
thrill-seeker be fired from his volunteer job. Police passed their findings and
her wishes onto Bancha’s supervisor.
