Four arrested, kratom and cash seized during raid on Phuket Town community

Eakkapop Thongtub

 

Officials carry out a raid on one of the properties. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub.

 

PHUKET: -- A 20-strong team of officials carried out a raid on four properties in the Chumchon Sapanruam community in Phuket Town yesterday afternoon (Jan 19), a raid that led to the seizure of 44 kilograms of kratom and the arrest of four people.

 

At 3:30pm yesterday, Chief of the Phuket Peace Keeping Council Capt Somsak Ratchawakarn, Lt JG Taksin Hooklim of the Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command, and Capt Wetchasak Junadung of the Phuket City Police led 20 officers to raid four houses in the Chumchon Sapanruam community in Phuket Town.

 

The raid came after local residents complained of continued drug activity being conducted in the area.

 

Officials first raided house numbers 30 and 33 in Soi Chumchon Sapanruam 6 where they discovered fresh kratom leaves, packs of dried kratom with cough syrup and bottles of liquid kratom.

 

Three people were arrested in the raid, however, only one was named by police, 23-year-old Mr Amnart Faijai. The other two arrested were Amnart’s girlfriend and mother.

 

However, officers confirmed that a fourth person was also found in one house, a 74-year-old woman named only as Ms Jai.

 

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/four-arrested-kratom-and-cash-seized-during-raid-on-phuket-town-community-60694.php

 

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Kratom is legal in the USA, so is marijuana in many states. Thailand doesn't need to kowtow to the American Drug Agency in these days and times. Time to decriminalize Kratom, a harmless little vice for the peasants.