Man Arrested For Firing At Neighbor Over Cooking Fire Smoke
A 49-year-old man in Lampang was arrested after firing a homemade gas gun at his neighbor's cooking pot during a dispute over smoke from her sticky rice preparation. Officers recovered an unregistered firearm and ammunition from his home, a
On July 9, officers from Mae Tha Police Station in Lampang Province, led by Deputy Superintendent Anant Kammee and Investigator Prasit Yodruean, arrested 49-year-old Tawee Sagdi at a field shelter in Ban Mai, Wang Ngoen Subdistrict, Mae Tha District. The arrest followed a complaint from a neighbor, Somm, who reported that Tawee had fired a gas gun at her sticky rice cooking pot that morning after they had an ongoing dispute about fire smoke from her cooking method.
When officers arrived at the shelter where Tawee was hiding with a man named Mek, he confessed to the shooting. During a subsequent search of his home, authorities recovered an unregistered homemade Thai-style gas gun and ammunition hidden beneath a pile of wood and inside a rice storage loft. Tawee was charged with two offenses: illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition, and reckless discharge of a firearm in a populated area without justifiable cause.
During the same search, officers also found 11 methamphetamine tablets in Mek's possession, leading to a separate drug charge against him for illegal possession of Category 1 narcotics.
