Korean owner of Phuket snake farm busted with drugs

Mr Eun was arrested after crossing into Thailand from Poipet, Cambodia.

Photo: Paxse

PHUKET: -- The Korean owner of a Phuket snake farm was arrested at the Thai border with Cambodia this morning when he tried to smuggle ya ice (crystal methamphetamine) and marijuana into the Kingdom.

The Korean, identified as 51-year-old Eun Sooyong, was passing through a security checkpoint at the Phrom Daen border crossing in the Aranyaprathet district of Sa Kaew Province, across from the Cambodian town of Poipet.

Acting on an informant’s tip-off, police searched the Korean’s suitcase and found two small bags of ya ice, with a total weight of 1.34 grams, as well as a small black bag containing 6.2 grams of dried marijuana.

Confessing to charges of trying to smuggle the narcotics into the country, Mr Eun said he bought the drugs from a Cambodian man at the Ho Wah Genting Casino in Poipet.

He intended to smuggle them back to Phuket and take them with friends, he said.

-- Phuket Gazette 2011-03-10

Really wish, he would have called ahead....

Some poor Camb soul could have carried those bags for him....

Just go to prove.... skimping just does not pay....

In reality.... it serves him right....

Now, come the court proceedings.... including proving and confiscating all his snakes and other farm equipments and such....

Why or why....

What if he were to claim that.... those illegals were winner prize from HuSen casino.... for Thai Chief Customs Officer....?

Boy.... won't that be an interesting twist....