Buddhist novice in Khon Kaen arrested for allegedly selling meth pills

By The Nation

 

A Buddhist novice was defrocked and arrested at a temple in Khon Kaen’s Ban Haet district on Saturday morning for allegedly abusing and selling methamphetamine in his temple.

 

Police from the Ban Haet police station arrested Naruenart, 19, at his living quarters in a temple at 7.30am.

 

Ban Haet police chief Pol Col Anusak Sakdawatcharanon said officials received complaints from the people in the neighbourhood that the novice had been allegedly selling drugs to local youths.

 

Police found 36 meth pills in his living quarters.

 

Naruenart said the novice bought the drugs from another youth for his own use and sometimes sold to other youths, who came to buy at his living quarters in the temple.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30369608

 

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He couldn't sell alcohol today , so he tried selling meth pills.

Even the monks are just human beings, many even delinquents!

monk and drugdealer! unusual yet  lethal alliance

18 hours ago, rooster59 said:

A Buddhist novice was defrocked and arrested at a temple in Khon Kaen’s Ban Haet district on Saturday morning for allegedly abusing and selling methamphetamine in his temple.

Goes hand-in-hand with money laundering/corruption so why am I not surprised....temples will take anyone now

Add in some pimping & we have the same reflection as in the streets... 

Obviously a novice, he got caught.......

35 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Goes hand-in-hand with money laundering/corruption so why am I not surprised....temples will take anyone now

Add in some pimping & we have the same reflection as in the streets... 

Yep the biggest money laundering network in Thailand. Thai monks everywhere get reported almost daily as dealing drugs, gambling, property speculation, under age sex you name they do it, all with the complicity of successive governments.  Now you know why it is purported that families are proud for their sons/men to spend some time in the monk hood. Purely so that they can learn the arts and tools of a corrupt life that they , given the opportunity, can use in the business world to feather their nests. Unfair to true Buddhism certainly, but true Buddhism does not exist in Thailand.

11 hours ago, Pique Dard said:

monk and drugdealer! unusual yet  lethal alliance

 

Well, it isn't unusual actually considering many youngsters join the monkhood short term to make amends for misdemeanors outside or to use it in court as an excuse to avoid prison sentences.

 

Many in the monkhood are former criminals.

23 minutes ago, Scouse123 said:

 

Well, it isn't unusual actually considering many youngsters join the monkhood short term to make amends for misdemeanors outside or to use it in court as an excuse to avoid prison sentences.

 

Many in the monkhood are former criminals.

"Many in the monkhood are former criminals."

 

And still are, unless being a con-man is no longer a crime