11 arrested in Phuket for drug related offences
Eakkapop Thongtub


Apinya and Palakorn were found in possession of five bundles of kratom leaves and one kratom tree.

PHUKET: -- Eleven people were arrested in Patong yesterday (May 27), all for drug related offences.

At 6:30pm, Kathu police went to search a house on Ratpatanusorn Rd in Patong and arrested Apinya Dutsadee, 45, and Palakorn Thongsaard, 18, who were found in possession of five bundles of kratom leaves and one kratom tree.

During the raid police also seized a rice cooker and cough syrup used for making kratom juice.

The two were taken to Kathu police station and charged with possession of and producing a Category 5 drug.

While police were in the area they also arrested one Thai national and eight Burmese men also found in possession of drugs.

The Thai man, Udom Chumwong, 40, was arrested with .56 grams of crystal meth (ya ice) when he was stopped and searched while riding his motorbike.

The eight Burmese men were arrested in a rented room while cooking kratom leaves. They were named as Zor Tu, 33; Zor Linn U, 26; Mou Minn U, 20; Zor U, 20; Zharn winn, 24; Ow, 25; Zor, 28 and Ney How, 21.

All nine were taken to Kathu Police Station and Udom was charged with possession of a Category 1 with intent to sell, while the Burmese men were charged with possession of and producing a Category 5 drug.

Source: http://www.thephuketnews.com/11-arrested-in-phuket-for-drug-related-offences-52511.php

-- Phuket News 2015-05-28

Also they arrest Somtschai in Nanai Road, when he was roling a filter for making a joint but no possession of drugs. He was charged for intention of producing a Category 5 drug joint and possession of a filter..............

BIB in top form again. I'll sleep better at night knowing that.

"At 6:30pm, Kathu police went to search a house .... in possession of five bundles of kratom leaves and one kratom tree."

"tree" is pushing it a bit

I am happy to see that all the major crimes and problems have been solved in Phuket and that the police has time to tackle these really severe issues involving huge kratom trees!

Well maybe NOT? Should they focus their time not on real crime?

Only thinking......

These are Thai peoples tax money hard at work. The police have nothing better to do, and too little money to do it.

O thank god you got the master minds! Fewf the bad guys are off the street, that Kratom is some scary shit.

Your media is just about as disgusting as in America, congratulations! You have to demand an end to bullshit stories like this. The rabid anti drug media has to go! Once we get rid of it we can heal from this unwinnable war. Think of all the money that can be saved, all of the lives that will not be ruined by a plant being illegal. Also think about all of the impoverished people the war on drugs effects, they often have to choose between growing a plant that the government had decided shouldn't be grown or not feeding their family.

Kratom is a plant (that grows wild in Thailand), calling it an illegal drug is pure nonsense.