Narinaj Mongkolchat has been
arrested for fraud and impersonating a police officer.
Theerarak Suthathiwong
A woman trying to bribe her boyfriend out of a drug
arrest lost the payout in a scam hatched by a man later arrested for
impersonating a police officer.
Narinaj Mongkolchat, 27, was jailed for both fraud and
pretending to be a cop in the Oct. 31 incident at Soi 11 and Second Road.
Pimnapas Khophanklang, 23, complained to police that
Narinaj had told her he was a Pattaya police officer who could free her
28-year-old boyfriend, who had just been arrested on drug charges. She paid
him 4,500 baht and was told to wait about 20 minutes for him to return with
her methamphetamine-addicted lover. He never did.
Police caught up with Narinaj and alleged accomplice
Bangorn Kiewsri, 29, near Soi Bongkot. Narinaj, a day laborer before
admittedly taking up a career as a scam artist, tried to elicit sympathy
from investigators saying he needed the money to help his parents in
flood-ravaged Pathum Thani. The real police weren’t buying the fake copper’s
story and threw him and his girlfriend in jail pending further
investigation.
