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จงแปลข่าวต่อไปนี้เป็นภาษาอังกฤษ

อดีตนักโทษบุกปล้นร้านเซเว่นฯ

เมื่อเวลาประมาณ 23.00 น. วานนี้ ร.ต.ท.บุญรักษา ไตรทศพร ร้อยเวรสถานีตำรวจโชคชัย รับ แจ้งเหตุว่ามีการชิงทรัพย์ร้านเซเว่นอีเลฟเว่น ในซอยลาดพร้าว 87 เขตวังทองหลาง ตำรวจรุดไปยังที่เกิดเหตุพบพนักงานของร้าน 2 คนอยู่ในอาการตกใจ จาก การสอบถาม น.ส.เพียง เพ็ญ นวลแจ่ม อายุ 21 ปี ให้การว่าคนร้ายเป็น ชายอายุประมาณ 30 ปี สวมเสื้อยืดสีน้ำเงินและกางเกงยีนส์ ตอนเข้ามาครั้งแรกทำทีเป็นมองหาของแต่ก็ออกไปโดยไม่ได้ซื้ออะไร จากนั้นสักครู่ กลับเข้ามาอีก ครั้งนี้เดินตรงมาที่ตนใช้ปืน บังคับให้ส่งเงินทั้งหมดให้ ก่อน ขึ้นรถจักรยานยนต์หลบหนีไป

จาก การตรวจสอบเทปจากกล้องวงจรปิดของร้าน ตำรวจพบว่าผู้ต้องสงสัยชื่อนายสมศักดิ์ ทองมา เป็นนักโทษข้อหาค้ายาและเพิ่งถูกปล่อยตัวจากเรือนจำ ในขณะนั้น นายสมศักดิ์ยังถูกสงสัยว่าเกี่ยวข้องกับการเสียชีวิตของวัยรุ่นคนหนึ่งที่ เป็นลูกค้า แต่มีหลักฐานไม่เพียงพอจะจับกุมนายสมศักดิ์ในข้อหาฆ่าคนตายได้

Translation 1

Ex-Convict robs 7-11

Pol. Lt. Boonraksa Traitosaporn, on duty at Chok Chai Police Station, received report of a theft at a 7-Eleven store in Lat Phrao soi 87, Wang Thonglang District at about 11 p.m. last night. Police rushed to the scene and found two store employees still frightened. Piangpen Nuanjam, 21, revealed in interrogation that the offender was male, aged around 30, wearing jeans and a blue T-shirt. He first entered pretending to be looking for items but went out without making a purchase, returning a while later, this time coming straight to her with a gun, making her hand over all of the money before fleeing on a motorcycle.

Review of the security camera tapes revealed that the suspect was Somsak Thongma, an ex-convict for drug dealing and recently released from prison. Somsak had also been a suspect, then, in the death of a teenage customer but there had been insufficient evidence to arrest him for manslaughter.

Translation 2

Ex-Convict robs 7-11

Pol. Lt. Boonraksa Traitosaporn, on duty at Chok Chai Police Station, received report of a theft at a 7-Eleven store in Soi Lat Phrao 87, Wang Thonglang District at about 11 p.m. last night. Police rushed to the scene and found two store employees still frightened. Under interrogation Piangpen Nuanjam, 21, stated that the offender was male, aged around 30. He was wearing jeans and a blue T-shirt. The first time he entered he pretended to be looking for something but went out without making a purchase. A while later he returned, this time heading straight to her, using a gun to make her give him all of the money before fleeing on a motorcycle.

Review of the security camera tapes revealed that the suspect was Somsak Thongma, a former convict sentenced for drug dealing and recently released from prison. In that previous case, Somsak had also been a suspect in the death of a teenage customer but there had been insufficient evidence to arrest him for manslaughter.

Reference

How to write time and date in English
Police Rank
Thai Provinces, Districts, and Sub-Districts (Romanized names; downloadable pdf file from the Royal Institute)

Discussion

เป็นนักโทษข้อหาค้ายาและเพิ่งถูกปล่อยตัวจากเรือนจำ: note appropriate tenses for this information in English

is a convict (In the present tense the phrase means that Somsak is still a convict and not released from prison. This is not what the Thai text says.)
is an ex-convict (drug dealing) and recently released from prison (The present tense used with ex- for convict is correct information. Somsak had been in prison. He is now released. He was at one time a convict.)

Ways of Giving Age Information

Randy Lee Roden, 26, of Seaside did not enter a plea at a court appearance Wednesday in nearby Astoria. [...] The mother, 24-year-old Dorothy Wing, has not been charged, but Ham said the investigation remains active. Police said her two sons, ages 5 and 2, were hospitalized with injuries that haven't been publicly described. (OregonLive)
He beat his ex-girlfriend with a 3-week-old puppy so severely that the puppy died. (WWMT-TV Newschannel 3)
His mother Sarah, a tireless campaigner for their freedom, died in 2008, aged 82. (Belfast Telegraph)

Vocabulary

อดีต

former

Former convict cooks up social change with restaurant chain, (BBC)
A jury convicted two ex-Vanderbilt football players on Tuesday of raping a former student, rejecting claims that they were too drunk to know what they were doing and that a college culture of binge drinking and promiscuous sex should be blamed for the attack. (Fox News)
Drew Peterson, the former suburban Chicago police officer convicted of killing his third wife and suspected in the disappearance of his fourth, has been charged with trying to hire someone to kill the prosecutor who helped put him in state prison, authorities announced Monday. (National Post)

Background check fails as ex-con lands HUD job, embezzles $800,000 (The Washington Times)
An ex-convict living in the coastal Oregon home where a 2-year-old girl died of blunt force trauma has been charged with aggravated murder (OregonLive)
A new probation program is in the spotlight after a violent ex-convict was sentenced to participate. (WWMT-TV Newschannel 3)

นักโทษ –

convict
felon
prisoner

ร.ต.ท. (ร้อยตำรวจ โท) – Pol. Lt. (Police Lieutenant) (ยศของ ข้าราชการตำรวจในสังกัดสำนักงานตำรวจแห่งชาติ)
rob
- hold up
- burgle
employee
- clerk
- worker
- attendant
frightened
- scared
- terrified
- in shock
interrogation (n.)
- questioning
- interview
ปืน

gun
shotgun
revolver
firearm

perpetrator
- offender
- robber
was suspected of involvement in the death of
evidence
homicide charges
- first-degree murder
- second-degree murder
- homicide
- manslaughter

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