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Police make annual raid on pharmacies selling sedatives used to drug, rob tourists
Police announce their big arrest.
Teerarak Suthathiwong
With another high season revving up, police made their annual sweep
of pharmacies illegally selling sedatives and tranquilizers.
Almost exactly a year after their last crack down on drug stores, Pattaya
and Tourist police again visited 36 pharmacies Nov. 27, making arrests at
three.
At Buakaow Pharmacy, employee Niphattrasa “Ice” Laosakul, 23, was taken into
custody as officers seized a large quantity of alprazolam, the generic
version of popular sedative Xanex. Employee Jarin Rattamanee, 29, was taken
into custody on similar charges at R&D Pharmacy. And at 168 Pharmacy, owner
Surachai Suksawang, 43, was jailed and 70 generic Xanex, 30 Diazapam and 58
Xiemed, another Xanex knockoff, were seized.
Dr. Wuthikrai Saksurakan of the Chonburi Public Health Department, noted
that Pattaya has experienced an increasing number of drug-related robberies
by prostitutes in recent years. Both this and last year’s raid were aimed at
cutting down on the supply of drugs hookers use to knock out customers
before robbing them.
In a related show for the cameras, Tourist Police officers rounded up 36
suspected transvestite prostitutes from Beach Road, fined them a minor sum
and released them to return to their posts under the palm trees.
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