Officer who fired M16 may have drug problem
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Police have pressed an additional charge of drug abuse against a police lieutenant colonel who opened fire in a Bangkok police station on Wednesday.
Burin Lalitathada is now in detention and has been dismissed from the service.
“Evidence has suggested that his behaviour had something to do with methamphetamine consumption,” Metropolitan Police Division 5 chief Maj Gen Suebsak Phansura said Friday.
He said Burin was also found to have previously sought drug rehabilitation from the Thanyarak Institute.
“There have also been reports of him firing shots from his gun elsewhere as well,’ Suebsak said.
Burin was arrested in a border province on Thursday for allegedly firing several rounds from an M16 machine gun inside Khlong Tan Police Station in Bangkok. At the time of the shooting, Burin was serving as an inspector at another station in Bangkok.
