SOURCE: http://www.pattayamail.com/current/news.shtml#hd10

note: and we wonder why the problem never seems to go away

Former police charged with ya ba dealing

A former Pattaya police officer was arrested allegedly with 450 ya ba pills in his pick-up truck at a police checkpoint on Pattaya 3rd Road on December 16.

Pol. Capt. Wuthipat Napachot, deputy traffic inspector at the Pattaya Police Station, was leading police and volunteer officers at a checkpoint to inspect motorbikes and vehicles in front of Soi Kaorai and Pattaya 3rd Road in Central Pattaya.

They stopped a pickup truck driven by Narongrit Sengrodrat, 36, of Huayyai, at 11 p.m. Police said while they were searching the vehicle, Narongrit threw something onto the road under the truck.

Officers allegedly found a large bag of ya ba pills there and also three packets in the pickup, confiscating 450 ya ba pills in total and 6,600 baht in cash as evidence.

Narongrit said that he worked as a Pattaya police officer two years ago and that the pickup belonged to a brother.

According to police, the accused had used the vehicle to go to buy ya ba from a teenage distributor on Jomtien Beach to sell, some of the pills having already been sold before he was arrested at the checkpoint.

The accused said the reason for him keeping business cards of newspaper reporters in the vehicle was “for insurance to prevent police from arresting him.”

Waou, looks like the boys in brown are on a roll - can that be the new chief of police who want to make his mark?