Arrests in debt-collection shooting in Thanyaburi
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Police have paraded two alleged members of a debt-collection gang accused of shooting at the house of a woman debtor in Pathum Thani's Thanyaburi district last Sunday.
Wissanu Ampaiboon, 25, and Sompong Poonsuk, 30, reportedly confessed to having joined 11 other debt collectors in firing at the house allegedly on the order of reputed Nonthaburi-based loan shark Wuthichai Pho-art. They were brought to the 56-year-old victim’s house to re-enact the crime yesterday.
The men have been charged with attempted murder, gun possession, carrying a gun in public without permission and causing damage to another person’s property.
They claimed the victim failed to repay her debt despite receiving many previous warnings. They also said the woman’s son argued with them.
Deputy police chief Pongsapat Pongcharoen said the duo fled to Cambodia and were arrested in Sa Kaew upon returning to Thailand.
