Wuthipan Krajuikrajai
(left) shows Pol. Col. Somnuk Changate and other police officials damage
done to his pickup from the late night barrage of gunfire.
Theerarak
Suthathiwong
A Pattaya correctional officer behind the suspension
of another guard saw his house strafed with automatic gunfire as he
slept.
Wuthipan Krajuikrajai, 37, a guard at the Pattaya
Remand Prison, was unhurt in the after-midnight July 19 attack on his
small Nong Plalai wooden house. Police recovered seven M16 automatic
rifle bullets that hit his home and truck.
Prison officials called Wuthipan a model employee,
saying he’d not been in any dispute with inmates, but that the officer
was responsible for having another guard suspended several days before.
Wuthipan had intercepted a package destined to be
delivered by Theeradech Daengsuk to an inmate. Inside were two illegal
mobile phones and 35 grams of crystal methamphetamines. After learning
Theeradech had accepted the package without inspecting it, he was
suspended.
