Pornchai Khongsri, Thamsak
Nunoi, and Prempreedi Praphitthang were arrested on drugs charges.
Boonlua Chatree
Unable to charge three Naklua bag-snatching suspects with theft,
police jailed the trio on drug-use charges.
Prempreedi Praphitthang, 19, Thamsak Nunoi, 40, Pornchai Khongsri, 30, were
arrested Dec. 12 after police found four women’s handbag’s in their Wong
Amat Beach house.
All the bags were reported stolen by foreign tourists but, because the
victims likely already returned home, none were claimed, leaving police with
no victims to identify the suspects as the thieves.
Instead, all three men were drug-tested. Banglamung Hospital confirmed all
had been using methamphetamines and the suspects were charged with use of a
Class 1 narcotic.
