Bangkok police arrested a 34-year-old man with a massive arsenal of weapons in his Huay Kwang apartment last week.
They searched the room of Sompong (“Boy”) Sueprang on Pracharat Bamphen Soi 6 looking for drugs, but instead found 14 M67 grenades and 1500 AK-47 bullets in addition to three grams of meth. Sompong’s 19-year-old girlfriend was also arrested, FM91 radio reported.
Sompong denied ownership of the weapons, saying that they belonged to his friend Teung who he had only known for a few months. He said that Teung had visited him and dropped off some boxes in front of his apartment building and asked Sompong to hold them for THB20,000. Sompong kept the boxes in his room but later heard that his friend Teung had been arrested for drugs in a Prachachuen.
Daily News reported that police initially raided Sompong’s room because he and his girlfriend had been fingered for selling drugs by a police informant.
Police are further investigating Sompong and his girlfriend.
