Boonlua Chatree
Two drunk Thai men were arrested for allegedly
punching two off-duty police volunteers attempting to break up a fight
at a Third Road bar.
Kumphol Umnimai, 31, and Thawachai Suphasa, 19, were
arrested at Raan Khao-Tom Chomphalung around 3 a.m. Aug. 29 following a
dust-up over another pub patron supposedly leering at one of the men’s
girlfriends.
Police claim Kumphol and Thawachai confessed they’d
attacked an unnamed patron out of jealousy and that two other men had
stepped in to break up the fight. Neither identified themselves as
police volunteers, the suspects said, and because they were not in
uniform, they’d assumed the volunteers were friends of the lecherous
victim.
The intoxicated Kumphol and Thawachai were charged with drunk and
disorderly conduct and locked up overnight to sleep it off.
