{"id":55466,"date":"2026-06-27T15:06:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/cardiff-teens-arrested-in-thailand-prompting-police-probe\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T15:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:06:24","slug":"cardiff-teens-arrested-in-thailand-prompting-police-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/cardiff-teens-arrested-in-thailand-prompting-police-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff teens arrested in Thailand prompting police probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Two Welsh teenagers have been arrested in Thailand prompting a police investigation into the &#8220;circumstances&#8221; behind their trip.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Wales Police said it had &#8220;limited information&#8221; on the arrests of the 17-year-olds from Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has been in contact with Thai authorities, while police officers are &#8220;gathering as much information as possible&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We understand this is a very concerning time for the families and wider community,&#8221; said the force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The FCDO confirmed it was &#8220;supporting two British nationals detained in Thailand and is in contact with the local authorities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crkv7jn8nd7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Welsh teenagers have been arrested in Thailand prompting a police investigation into the &#8220;circumstances&#8221; behind their trip. South Wales Police said it had &#8220;limited information&#8221; on the arrests of the 17-year-olds from Cardiff. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has been in contact with Thai authorities, while police officers are &#8220;gathering as much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[1562,1251,599,1327,15725,4933,2048],"class_list":["post-55466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-arrested","tag-cardiff","tag-police","tag-probe","tag-prompting","tag-teens","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55468,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55466\/revisions\/55468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}