Four Myanmar Suspects Surrender After 5-Hour Sugarcane Standoff

Four Myanmar nationals wanted for killing a Chinese employer surrendered after a five-hour standoff in a sugarcane field. At 6 p.m. on October 28, 2026, over 100 officers from Phanom Nikhom Police Station, Lad Krabang Police Station, Phanom Nikhom District Office, and Sawang Het Thung Hiang Rescue Unit surrounded more than 100 rai of sugarcane plantation in Moo 9, Hua Thanon Subdistrict, and Moo 1, Sa Si Liam Subdistrict, Phanom Nikhom District, Chonburi Province. They were tracking four Myanmar suspects — two men and two women — who fled from Lad Krabang after being charged with murdering their Chinese employer.

Officers encircled the area and flew thermal-imaging drones to detect movement inside the dense cane, pressuring the group to surrender. After more than five hours, all four suspects walked out of the plantation toward rescue volunteers stationed at the perimeter and admitted they were the fugitives.

A rescue volunteer who encountered the group said that while on watch, he spotted four men and women walking out of the cane directly toward him. Their faces matched the descriptions of the wanted suspects, so he questioned them; all four confessed. They asked for water and food, saying they were exhausted after hiding in the plantation for so long and decided to turn themselves in. The volunteer immediately alerted police.

Kamnan Suea of Sa Si Liam Subdistrict said that after police coordination about the fugitives fleeing Lad Krabang following the murder, he helped coordinate villagers, village headmen, and district officials to seal off the 100-plus-rai plantation to prevent escape. The operation lasted over five hours before the four suspects surrendered.

Preliminary checks confirmed all four individuals were named on arrest warrants issued by Min Buri Court. Police read the warrants, took them into custody, and transferred them to Lad Krabang Police Station for further investigation and legal proceedings.