Officers who broke into an online class buying modified weapons identified the suspect.
4 November 2023 at 17:18 PUBLISHED
In Phichit state, a 24-year-old man has been detained for turning plain weapons into weapons and selling them online.
A home in the Thap Khlo district’s tambon Khao Sai was the subject of a search warrant issued by the Phichit Provincial Court on Thursday by Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau( CCIB ) police on Saturday morning.
Officers surrounded the house before spotting Prinya Petchjinda, a person who would later be identified as trying to leave on foot. Four pencil guns and six rounds of.38 weapons were discovered on the suspect when they apprehended him. He was apparently evading the police while attempting to rid of the items.
A modified empty weapon that could be used as a weapon, along with 43 pencil guns, 26 weapon barrels, 20 firing pins and 23 magazines, as well as various other gun parts, were discovered in the home.
Seven trash pills were also discovered by police inside a zipped case concealed in the cylinder of an airsoft rifle.
Pol Gen Torsak Sukvimol, the head of the national officers, ordered the research as part of a assault on the purchase of firearms and modified weaponry online.
Mr. Prinya was discovered by CCIB authorities after they broke into a covert online marketplace that traded illegal firearms and modified arms.
The suspect acknowledged creating and altering firearms for purchase over the previous two years, demonstrating his ability to sell four to five pieces per month for pencil guns between 1,200 and 1,500 baht. For up to 15, 000 baht each, he sold plain weapons designed to hold real weapons.
Mr. Prinya acknowledged to the police that he used social media and online groups to conduct business, but added that officials even paid him income.
He is currently being processed in accordance with lawful techniques after being accused of breaking the law regarding firearms and ammunition as well as illegally possessing both weapons and drugs.
In attacks on two warehouses in the Rat Burana city on Thursday, Bangkok police seized a sizable number of fake firearms and nbsp.
Following the murders that claimed three lives on October 3 in a Bangkok shopping store, authorities have intensified their efforts to stop the sale of illegal weapons and near legal gaps.
The teen who was detained in connection with the Siam Paragon shootings was carrying a blanks-firing weapons that he had purchased online. Later, he modified it so that true guns could be fired.
In order to lessen gun-related murder, authorities have even vowed to increase gun controls.