Man Arrested After Police Say CCTV Showed Him Sexually Abusing Neighbor’s Koi BANGKOK — Thai police have arrested a 51-year-old man accused of climbing into a private koi pond and sexually abusing a fish. Officers identified the suspect as Suchitchai, also known as Tong. Some English-language reports named him Sutthichai Boonlert. Pol. Col. Yutthasilp Karin of Thung Song Hong Police Station said the incident happened about 8 p.m. on Sept. 7 outside a house on Soi Vibhavadi Rangsit 66. The pond’s owner later reviewed CCTV after becoming suspicious. Footage cited by police showed a man arriving by bicycle, circling the pond, then stripping, entering the water, catching a koi, and using the fish sexually before putting it back. The owner and a housekeeper confronted him. He fled on the bicycle. The owner fell and was injured while chasing him. On Sept. 10, officers spotted the man nearby in the same clothes seen on camera. He tried to run and was arrested. Police said he admitted he was the person in the video. He told them he had gone there to bathe, became aroused when he saw the koi, and had no partner or money. He allegedly said he had done similar acts with other fish and, years earlier, with a dog — a case that led to a prior arrest by Bang Khen police. He faces charges that include trespassing, property damage, acts causing public disgrace, and animal cruelty, according to police. The owner said he wants to pursue the case. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. A photo circulated with Thai coverage of the arrest shows a man in a blue shirt at the pond, face blurred by news outlets:

Hate when people abuse fish! what a disgusting pig filled with lust!