Thread: Police arrest assassin on Thailand's most wanted list

Police arrest assassin on Thailand's most wanted list
Thu 17 Oct 2013

Police have arrested an assassin on Thailand's most wanted list, the Bangkok Post reported.

Jom Imkaew, 63, reportedly confessed that he had killed at least 70 people during his time as a hitman and said his victims were mostly criminals and drug dealers.

Police Lt Gen Anuchai Lekbamrung said police found him in a house in Khon Kaen, located in northeastern Thailand, where authorities were conducting a drugs sting operation.

itv.com

i seen this on the news this morning. said hitman seemed very jovial i thought.

Jom Imkaew, who is on the most wanted gunmen list, was arrested in Khon Kaen on Thursday.
(Photo by Chakrapan Natunri)

^TiT...

Where are the other 249 on the list?

..and who told him to kill those 70 drug dealers?

Originally Posted by Mid

his victims were mostly criminals and drug dealers.

I wonder if he only stopped because Thaksin's line of credit ran out?

Was he an undercover BIB?

[QUOTE="Gilbert"]I wonder if he only stopped because Thaksin's line of credit ran out?

That's very astute

Been doing it for 40 years.

Well done BIB, for a speedy arrest. Something to be proud of.

He looks like mr average Somchai. Probably why he's had such a long career.

[QUOTE=pompeysbroke;2589665]

Originally Posted by Gilbert

I wonder if he only stopped because Thaksin's line of credit ran out?

That's very astute

Chalerm has been ill recently. Ill enough to stop him getting out and about?

I bet this guy has a bit of dirt on some people.

He's pointing at himself, methinks...

Originally Posted by Mikey Forester

I bet this guy has a bit of dirt on some people.

Yup. Wonder if he'll have a little accident whilst in detention?

BPost had more detail:

Pol Lt Gen Anuchai said Jom Imkaew, 63, was number nine on the wanted list with a 100,00 baht bounty on his head.

The suspect nonchalantly confessed that he killed at least 70 people when he was 21 to 50 years old, and that most of them were criminals or drug dealers. He was paid about 4,000 to 80,000 baht for each hit.

In 2006, he and a man known only as Sgt San shot dead a married couple who owned a noodle place in Chiang Mai's Chiang Dao district. He had been in hiding in Khon Kaen since then, he said.

According to the suspected assassin, he was sentenced to life in prison for killing a village chief in Chiang Mai's Fang district in 1980. But he was released in 1992 after receiving a pardon.

The man was convicted again in 1994 for a firearm-related offence and completed his jail time in 2006.

24 years in jail, and still time to kill 70+.
I'm waiting to read that he's been allowed out on bail.

4,000 baht eh.


Think twice before telling the neighbours who park outside your house where to go.

Half that for a Farang,it gets written off as a suicide.