Police Raid Nightclub in Pattaya for Transnational Crime and Overstayers, Find Nothing

[webfact]

 

By Goongnang Suksawat

 

Pattaya – Police inspected an entertainment venue in Pattaya in a crackdown on people involved in transnational crime and people who have overstayed their legal visa to stay in Thailand.

 

 

 

On Friday night (April 28th) a team of officers from Chonburi Provincial Police, the Pattaya City Police, and immigration officers inspected Ying Club on Pattaya Third Road in Central Pattaya.

 

More than 120 Thai and foreign tourists were in the nightclub. Police checked ID cards and passports. Urine drug tests were conducted on a total of nine Chinese (8 men, 1 woman), a Korean, 4 Indonesians (2 men, 2 women), 32 Thais, and 64 staff (41 men, 23 women). None of them tested positive for drugs and no illegal items were found. Police also checked many cars in the parking lot for possible weapons or drugs but found neither.

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2023/04/29/police-raid-nightclub-in-pattaya-for-transnational-crime-and-overstayers-find-nothing/

 

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[Geoffggi]

Early warning system appears to be working correctly ..................LOL

[hotchilli]

I wonder why they targeted this venue?

[jacko45k]

20 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

I wonder why they targeted this venue?

The cynic in me suggests a late brown envelope, sadly I am likely correct. Surely they should be getting embarrassed to be raiding these places and coming up with a big fat zero! Place had mostly staff in there!

[RichardColeman]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Pattaya – Police inspected an entertainment venue in Pattaya in a crackdown on people involved in transnational crime and people who have overstayed their legal visa to stay in Thailand

or police harass tourists

[champers]

More staff than customers. Must be a hiso joint. ????

[mikebell]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

None of them tested positive for drugs and no illegal items were found. Police also checked many cars in the parking lot for possible weapons or drugs but found neither.

Fore-warned is fore-armed.  What a dreadful waste of police resources when all major roads were snarled up yesterday.

[jacko45k]

Just now, mikebell said:

Fore-warned is fore-armed.  What a dreadful waste of police resources when all major roads were snarled up yesterday.

I was trying to get out of town yesterday and on  Sukhumvit heading North, where tunnel traffic, slip road traffic and those trying to get onto the flyover for Hwy7 are supposed to merge and sort themselves out. (Bangkok drivers don't do 'merge', more 'barge') Was met with road works at at the flyover entry. Quite a mess....

What type of idiot schedules such work on a bank holiday weekend?

[Enoon]

 

Silly police......Tuesdays and Thursdays are "Transnational Crime and Overstayer" nights. 

 

No wonder they didn't get anyone.

 

 

[cncltd1973]

3 hours ago, jacko45k said:

The cynic in me suggests a late brown envelope, sadly I am likely correct. Surely they should be getting embarrassed to be raiding these places and coming up with a big fat zero! Place had mostly staff in there!

they seem to be quite proud of the results judging from the last raid that made the headlines. didn't find anything then and called it a success! success in ruining the nightlife for those tourists, and success in making some badly needed pocket money selling clean urine in a jar for those that need it

Edited May 1, 2023 by cncltd1973

[Bangkok Barry]

3 hours ago, cncltd1973 said:

they seem to be quite proud of the results judging from the last raid that made the headlines. didn't find anything then and called it a success! success in ruining the nightlife for those tourists, and success in making some badly needed pocket money selling clean urine in a jar for those that need it

They point to finding nothing and claim their raids are working, rather than admitting that there was nothing to find to begin with.