According to police, Alexander Lopez, 29, showed a box cutter while he snatched cans of beer from a 7-Eleven on Phadung Dao Road in Samphanthawong district about 10am on Saturday. He then fled the store.
Pol Lt Prasarn Somkanay, 58, was on duty at a nearby traffic light booth on Charoen Krung Road, and he chased the man on his motorbike and tried to arrest him. The American allegedly resisted and slashed the policeman’s neck with his cutter before fleeing again.
