Salim
Azzoe was arrested while hacking the door of a guest at an apartment
building on Third Road.
Boonlua Chatree
A drunken Frenchman fresh off a bar fight tried to attack
a Thai-British couple with a machete.
Salim Azzoe, 19, was arrested while hacking the door of a
guest at the Prima Place Apartments on Third Road around 5 a.m. Jan. 11.
Assanee Noomor, 25, told police she was returning to the
hotel with her British boyfriend, Mark Lockett, and rode to the sixth floor
in the elevator with Azzoe. She said Frenchman was glaring at the couple and
after Lockett moved to shield her from his stares, an argument broke out.
Upon exiting the elevator, Azzoe reappeared and chased
them waving a 2-foot-long knife, she claimed.
Azzoe told police he’d been out drinking and had gotten
into a fistfight with some tourists. When he got in the elevator with the
couple, he said he was angered that they were staring at his bloody nose and
bruises and so he grabbed the machete from his room to attack them.
The Frenchman was charged with assault and destruction of
property.
