In the bustling heart of Lop Buri, just after the stroke of midnight on July 10, a scene unfolded that seemed to leap straight off the pages of a crime novel. A retired military officer, aged 66, found himself at the center of a botched robbery attempt at a local convenience store. The officer, driven by financial desperation, drew a firearm and attempted to take what wasn’t his, igniting a small whirlwind of chaos in the nocturnal hours. The incident, reported to the 191 Radio Centre at exactly twelve minutes past midnight, took place at a convenience store tucked away in a petrol station on Chomphon Pibulsongkram Road, within the vibrant Mueang Lop Buri district. The masked perpetrator, after his futile robbery bid, sped away in a grey car along the shadowed lanes leading to Naresuan Road in the Khao Sam Yod subdistrict. Quick on the trail, Police Lieutenant Somnuk…
