Grenade thrower captured - after 3 years on the run

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Grenade thrower captured - after 3 years on the run

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Grenade thrower caught
12 January 2018
A military officer was arrested yesterday after spending three years on the run after he threw a grenade at a Kampong Thom Provincial Court deputy prosecutor who seized his timber.

Seng Sophal, an officer with the provincial military police, identified the suspect as Major Sorn Bun, 35, a local military officer and well-known timber businessman.

Mr Sophal said the suspect was arrested near the Thai-Cambodian border in Preah Vihear province, where he was in hiding.

On the night of June 17, 2014, Maj Bun threw a grenade in the house of Say Nora, the prosecutor who ordered the seizure of his luxury timber. Neither Mr Nora nor his family were injured.

Maj Bun then fled and went into hiding for three years. He was charged in absentia with “attempted murder of a civil servant” and “illegal use of a weapon”...
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Cop arrested over grenade attack
15 January 2018
- Authorities in Kampong Thom province have arrested a Military Police officer suspected of throwing a grenade into a prosecutor’s home more than three years ago.
“We cannot say it was him 100 percent yet,” Sothea said. “We need to do more investigation. He might be the suspect in the grenade attack, but he has not confessed yet.”
Court administration spokesman Van Seng said Kampong Thom and Preah Vihear Provincial Military Police acted on a warrant for Pon’s arrest issued last June accusing him of attempting to murder a public officer and using a weapon without permission. “First he shot the front of his house and then threw a grenade into his house,” Seng said.

Seng added that Pon had previously been convicted in absentia of illegally transporting and collecting timber in July 2016, for which he was sentenced to two years...
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