3 police in northeast Thailand arrested for taking bribe to free drug suspect

Three police officers in Thailand‘s northeast Kalasin province Thailand were arrested on charges of soliciting a bribe to free a drug suspect. The crooked cops were officers at Mueang Kalasin Police Station.

Police launched a sting operation to bust the crooked cops after ‘A,’ the sister of the drug suspect, reported that the crooked cops had contacted her and demanded 500,000 baht in exchange for her brother’s freedom.

A negotiated the bribe down to 400,000 baht, and the crooked cops told her to meet them at the station on Thursday at 9am. The provincial police’s head of the investigation, Pol. Col. Kasem Mutaphon told A to go ahead and give the crooked cops the money as agreed and said the police would then arrest them.

When A arrived at Mueang Kalasin Police Station with the bribe money, a man took her to an investigation…