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Thai Police Probe Officer’s $3 Million Car Collection in Wake of Drug Suspect’s Death
The officer disappeared shortly before a video surfaced on social media that appears to show him directing a shakedown of the suspect that lead to the 24-year-old's death.
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Bangkok (AP) -- A Thai police colonel known as “Jo Ferrari” due to his collection of fine cars, who was wanted on suspicion of involvement in the death of a detained drug dealer who was allegedly being shaken down for cash, turned himself in on Thursday amid a nationwide manhunt.
Police officials said Col. Thitisan Utthanaphon turned himself in at a police station in Saen Suk, a coastal village southeast of Bangkok. Another suspect, Lt. Thoranin Matwanna, was apprehended in a town southwest of the capital.