Phuwanat Pakdee and Prakobchai Fuangma have been arrested
for possession of 4,000 methamphetamine tablets.
Boonlua Chatree
Pattaya police have arrested two men who allegedly
purchased 4,000 methamphetamine tablets from a dealer locked up in
Chonburi Prison.
Phuwanat Pakdee, 47, of Sriracha, and Prakobchai
Fuangma, 37, of Takhiantia, were apprehended Nov. 8 retrieving a package
of ya ba pills from a power pole in front of Chaweewan Inter Co., Ltd.
in Chonburi. The men confessed they’d paid 410,000 baht to a Chonburi
inmate they knew only as “Pee Pang.”
Like most large drug transactions, the buyers had
never met the dealer, instead transferring money to a bank account and
picking up their package from a telephone pole, garbage bin, phone booth
or other public place.
The arrests come after Lt. Gen. Tha-ngai
Pratsajaksattru, commander of the Provincial Police in Region 2, ordered
a crackdown on ya ba dealing tied to large-scale dealers already in
prison.