Police on Saturday took Jariyaporn Buayai, 32, to the Thanyaburi Court in Pathum Thani to seek the first detention on a charge of stealing an air-conditioner from a resort room there in 2013. Criminal suspects can be detained for up to seven 12-day periods, or 84 days, before charges must be formally laid. Police earlier suspected her parents were conspirators since they had been at all of her weddings to take the dowries. While there is no Supreme Court precedent ruling in such a case, a former attorney-general once offered an opinion in a similar case. However, the statute of limitations of the case ran out since he fled and could not be brought to trial within 10 years."

Source: Bangkok Post September 09, 2017 10:41 UTC