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BANGKOK (Thailand) — Ladies and gentlemen of the
jury, please direct your attention to "exhibit A" ...er, that
is, if "exhibit A" would kindly stop scratching itself and
running around the courtroom.
It is difficult to determine how these two
toy terriers figured into a criminal plot involving abduction and ransom. Scoop investigative reporters have a theory that they may have
been there to drive the getaway car (unless it was a stick shift; then
there would have to be three dogs). Nevertheless, the pair of
pooches has been confiscated by the police, and they are now being held
at the Crime Suppression Division.
"What poor dogs they are,"
says Police Colonel Pongpat Chayapan. "They were used in a
crime."
Police raided a house in Bang
Kapi, freeing a Chinese woman identified as 31-year-old Cai Xiujuan, the Bangkok
Post reported today. Two
Chinese nationals, Wangpei, 20, and Fan Seuhong, 35, were arrested at
the Grand Diamond hotel in Pratunam in connection with the kidnapping.
The two small dogs were found in the
raided house on Soi Soonvijai and were taken to the precinct as part of
the investigation. A male and female of
unknown breed, they are currently being pampered at the office of police superintendent
Colonel Pongpat, while their alleged owners are being held in the
not-quite-so-hospitable cell downstairs. |
"Crime scene dogs steal
policeman's heart", reports the Bangkok Post.
(Photo: Pattanapong Hirunard / Bangkok Post)
According to the Post, Col.
Pongpat would love to keep the dogs himself but feels it would not be
appropriate, as they are part of the abduction case.
(Do you suppose someone could sneak a tummy-rub, or would that be
"tampering with evidence"?
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