It was reported that a foreigner sought a conflict with the traffic police past midnight on February 5 2016. The incident happend when the police were doing an alcohol check along the street close to the Lion’s roundabout. The suspect continued driving his motorbike very fast which made him fall and resulted in some minor injuries. The police brought him to a doctor for a check-up and after that they brought him to the Provincial Traffic Police Station for questioning.
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Sihanoukville
A foreigner, who was recorded by CCTV, cracked an ATM at Serendipity on the road which goes (down) to the tourist jetty in Occheuteal, Sangkat 4, Krong Sihanoukville. The incident happened in the night of January 31, but he didn’t succeed (to crack it). Currently the police is looking for him to take legal action against him.
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At 1.10PM on January 20 2016 a foreigner attempted to commit suicide by jumping from a building behind Norodom School.
Authorities intervened on time.
They concluded that the foreigner was under influence of drugs/medicines.
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According to Arey News
The police sends 2 foreigners to the court in a case of theft with violence.
Kampot
This happened in the morning of January 2016. The 2 suspects are:
1. Deet Khem Rindi (ដេត ខេមរិនឌី), also called Chok, 33 years old, occupation not clear, living in Phum Twi Khaang Cheung (ទ្វីខាងជើង), Sangkat Ondoong Khmer (អណ្តូងខ្មែរ), Kampot District/Province.
2. Hiang Chaiya (ហ៊ាង ឆៃយ៉ា), 19 years old, living in Phum Twi Khaang Cheung (ទ្វីខាងជើង), Sangkat Ondoong Khmer (អណ្តូងខ្មែរ), Kampot District/Province.
The victim was identified as Johnny Marcel Soluas (ចូ អានីម៉ាស់ សិលសលួស), male, 65 years old and living in a rental house in Phum Twi Khaang Cheung (ទ្វីខាងជើង), Sangkat Ondoong Khmer (អណ្តូងខ្មែរ), Kampot District/Province.
According to the authorities at 0.15AM on January 11 2016 the first suspect covered the light at the gate with his T-shirt. He cut the fences with his pliers and walked to the house. He entered the house, took a stick and attacked the victim, who was looking television alone, from behind which resulted in serious head injuries. The victim screamed and fled to the kitchen at the backside (of the house). At that moment the suspect thought that the suspect wanted to take a knife so he also fled without stealing anything.
At 7.40AM on January 11 2016 the municipal police arrested the suspect at his house. They questioned him and around 1.30PM the same day they summoned another suspect for questioning and also arrested him.
Both suspects were referred to the court.
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According to Kampuchea Thmey (Graphic Warning!)
British national found dead in a rental room; exhaustion/fainting suspected as death cause.
Siem Reap
A British national was found dead in a rental room in Phum Banteay Chas (បន្ទាយចាស់), Sangkat Slok Raam (ស្លក្រាម), Krong Siem Reap.
According to the authorities the victim was a tourist, who hired the room temporary, was found dead in the room located in the above mentioned location.
The incident, which shocked neighbors and the owner of the room, happened at 7PM on January 13 2016. According to the conclusions of the authorities it could be that the victim already died 2 days before his body was found.
Please note that a team of doctors and the authorities who did an authopsy/examination informed that the victim died because of exhaustion/fainting and that drugs were found in the room.
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According to Kampuchea Thmey
Stole a mobile phone from a foreigner, police caught one suspect and another escaped.
Phnom Penh
A suspect, belonging to a duo, was arrested by the Military Police of Daun Penh after he stole a mobile phone from a foreigner and tried to escape. Another suspect managed to escape. The incident happened at 9.30PM on January 12 2016 in Street 67 located in Sangkat Psar Thmey 2, Khan Daun Penh.
The Military Police of Daun Penh says the suspect was identified as Thaa Phoktey (ថា ភក្តី), male, 21 years old, living in House Nr.111, Street 154, Phum8, Sangkat Psar Thmey 2, Khan Daun Penh. The arrested suspect was driving the motorbike.
A black Honda C125, license plate Phnom Penh 1FL- 4323, and 2 mobile phones (an LG and an HTC) were confiscated.
The victim was identified as Vincenzo Torrente, a 39 years old Italian tourist staying in Aura Hotel, Street 19, Sangkat Chy Chomneah, Khan Daun Penh.
Before the incident the victim was looking at his phone on the corner of Street 172 with Street 19. Suddenly the 2 suspects, driving their motorbike, showed up, approached the victim and robbed his white Samsung mobile phone.
After that the suspects fled along Street 19 northbound. The victim called for help and immediately the police, who was patrolling in the neighborhood, chased the suspects until they reached Street 67 (outside GSM) where they arrested the driver of the motorbike. The other suspect, the one with the mobile phone of the victim, escaped. He’s identified as Ra (រ៉ា) and living in Street 81, Psar Thmey 2(behind GSM).
The suspects will be sent to the court.
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According to Arey News
Swiss national apologizes to the Khmer people after he rolled his cigarettes with a 100riel note.
Sihanoukville:
The incident happened in the night of January 12 2016 and was noticed after Sambath Meas posted it on Facebook in the morning of January 13 2016.
The Swiss national, who’s a tourist, apologized to the Khmer people living in Sihanoukville after he used a 100riel note to roll his cigarette(s).
This act was considered as a serious insult. However, the citizens accepted his apologies after the Swiss national realized his mistake and kneeled to apologize.
In the reactions on the post some people said it’s good that the people recognized his error.
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According to Kampuchea Thmey
Stole a mobile phone and escaped but immediately caught by PM.
Phnom Penh
2 robbers were arrested by the Military Police from Daun Penh on January 12 2016 at 2PM in Street 63, on the corner with Street 136, Sangkat Psar Thmey 1, Khan Daun Penh.
According to the police they arrested 2 suspects in a case of a robbery of a mobile phone from a foreigner.
The suspects are a 22 years old without a clear job (the robber) and a 24 years old without a clear job (the driver of the motorbike).
A black Honda Dream motorbike C125 and a black Iphone6 (the phone of the victim) were confiscated upon their arrest.
The victim of the robbery was identified as the 21 years old Australian national ALICE UNWIN AUSTIN.
According to the police, before the incident the victim was looking on her phone on the corner of Street 154 with Street 63.
Suddenly the 2 suspects, driving a black motorbike, approached the victim and took her Iphone6. After that the 2 suspects tried to escape on their motorbike along Street 19 from the North to the South. The victim screamed for help. Immediately the police who was patrolling intervened and followed the suspects till the corner of Street 136 with Street 63.
The suspects dumped their motorbike and tried to escape by entering Psar Thmey. One suspect threw the phone in a shop. The 2 suspects were arrested and transported to the police office.
The mobile phone was overhanded to the victim. The suspect will be sent to court.
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According to Fresh News Asia
The Provincial Police of Kampot raided a place which was storing drugs and distributing drugs to foreigners.
General Mao Chen Moturith (ម៉ៅ ច័ន្ទមធុរិទ្ធ), from the Kampot Provincial Police, led his forces in a crackdown on a place storing marijuana and distributing marijuana.
The crackdown happened on January 12 2016 at 5.40PM in Phum Sovonn Sakor (សុវណ្ណសាគរ), Sangkat Kampong Kandal (កំពង់កណ្តាល), Krong Kampot.
The crackdown on the place storing and distributing marijuana was ordered by the deputy Provincial Court Prosecutor, Khaa Daenaa (ខា ដែនណា).
The police searched the house of a foreign suspect. They found drugs paraphernalia and other relevant things.
The identity of the foreigner and the amount of marijuana which was confiscated aren’t confirmed yet.
read more here.
According to Koh Santepheap
Unconscious foreigner found along the street
Phnom Penh
At 5.40AM on January 11 2016 a foreigner was found unconscious along Street 154 at the corner with Norodom Blvd in front of a shop selling glasses.
According to witnesses the foreigner is around 35 years old, it’s not clear where he comes from. He was already found a first time in the night of January 9 2016 but when the police went there he left. The second time, early morning on January 11 2016, he was spotted one more time unconscious/drugged. Although the authorities tried to wake him up, the didn’t manage.
The police called an ambulance and the foreigner was sent to Calmette Hospital for treatment.
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