School’s out! 120 Bangkok party-goers arrested in drugs raid on pub

By The Nation

 

 

Police and drug suppression officials who raided a Bangkok pub early on Wednesday found that alcohol wasn’t the only thing on the menu. Customers dressed in school uniform for a themed party at the Space Pub panicked as the drugs squad entered the premises on Pradit Manutham Road in Bang Khen district at 3am.

 

Motorcycles parked outside tumbled as party-goers ran to escape the cordon of police and Narcotics Control Board officials.

 

 

However, some 120 customers were detained after being forced to take drug tests which came up positive.

 

A brief search of the pub turned up ecstasy pills, ketamine drug and e-cigarette devices scattered over the floor, presumably ditched by pub-goers during the raid.

 

Pol Col Alongkorn Sirisongkram, commander of the Kokkram police station, said pub manager Sumet Ramkaew, 28, was arrested along with the 120 pub-goers, 70 men and 50 women.

 

Alongkorn said the pub had been open for two months and investigations had pointed to it being a drug den.

 

He said officials would seek to have the place closed down for five years.

 

The pub manager was charged with operating a pub and selling alcohol without licence, opening beyond closing hour, and tolerating drug abuse in the venue, Alongkorn said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30370192

 

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I think the police van is too small for 120 people 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

e-cigarette devices

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

tolerating drug abuse in the venue

Damn deviants vaping. Lock em up.

1 hour ago, Assurancetourix said:

I think the police van is too small for 120 people 

Not really. Have you seen the number of "genuine" school children that get packed into, and on the roof of, similar sized school buses?

Pathetic waste of police time and young lives ruined by being crimi alised. A disgrace.

I want to know what pub-visit there in a couple weeks

4 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

I think the police van is too small for 120 people 

 

I remember reading of a raid where the police put them in the back of a pickup (ignoring that riding in the back of pickups is illegal...), and when they reached the police station they all jumped out and legged it. One of those Only In Thailand things.