{"id":661324,"date":"2026-06-27T15:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661324\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T15:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:40:09","slug":"cardiff-teens-arrested-in-thailand-prompting-police-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661324\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff teens arrested in Thailand prompting police probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two Welsh teenagers have been arrested in Thailand prompting a police investigation into the &#8220;circumstances&#8221; behind their trip.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Welsh teenagers have been arrested in Thailand prompting a police investigation into the &#8220;circumstances&#8221; behind their trip.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-661324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}