Police arrested 34 people and confiscated 58 guns and over 6,000 rounds of ammunition during a midweek crackdown on a gang illegally selling firearms online.
Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittprapat, a deputy police chief and head of the Police Cyber Task Force, said raids targeted members of “Guns for Love”, a chat group where firearms, gun parts and ammunition were traded.
Investigators found the group was administered and transactions processed by a person known as “Noom”. Buyers would transfer money to a designated account after which Noom would instruct vendors to send items to buyers.
Armed with search warrants and two arrest warrants, police raided 77 targeted locations in 51 provinces targeting those involved in the illegal arms trade.
They arrested 34 people including Sathitkhun “Noom” Petchking, 21, the administrator of the sellers’ groups.
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