100 motorcycles seized, teenagers arrested in Chon Buri
Chon Buri police set up a road checkpoint Sunday night to thwart road racing and seized some 100 motorcycles either because they had either been illegally modified or were ridden by teenagers who had no licences.
Pol Col Jakkraphan Kittisiripornkul, commander of Samed police station, said some 40 policemen from his station were deployed to set up a road checkpoint on the Chon Buri-bound Sukhumvit Road in Mueng district at 10 pm and arrested more than 100 teenagers during the course of the night.
The checkpoint was set up in line with the National Council for Peace and Order's policy to crack down on road racing and police had anticipated plenty of road racers on Sunday night because Monday was a holiday.
Jakkraphan said most of the seized motorcycles were illegally modified, some of the young motorcyclists were not wearing crash helmets and several did not have driving licences.
Most of the arrested teenagers were under 18, Jakkraphan said, adding that those younger than 18 should have been at home by 10pm. He said their parents would be summoned to the police station to pay finse and would be warned to rein in their children.