District chief hits the jackpot as more gamblers arrested at 24 hour Jomtien casino

[webfact]

District chief hits the jackpot as more gamblers arrested at 24 hour Jomtien casino

 

Picture: TNews

 

Bang Lamung district chief Naris Niramaiwong continued his crusade to rid Pattaya of gambling with a raid on a casino operating openly at Jomtien beach.

 

The raid in conjunction with the military and police netted 33 gamblers playing "pok deng" cards.

 

Many of those arrested were women and old folk who couldn't run away.

 

As the raid began many able bodied gamblers scattered and jumped over walls to hide in neighboring houses.

 

Some got away despite the place being surrounded, reported Tnews. Some were injured in trying to escape.

 

Naris - who took down a group of grannies playing the Thai card game Dummy the other week - said this was a big casino.

 

He had received a report from military chief Suwit Laklang that the casino, already raided by the army in April, was continuing to operate without fear.

 

Evidence gathered pointed to the operation having a turnover of 14 million baht, he said. And it was in operation 24 hours a day with a steady stream of visitors.

 

Rungroj Phayungwong, 47, who was in charge and the rest of the gamblers successfully captured were handed over to Pattaya station chief Apichai Krobpetch for prosecution.

 

Taken into evidence were cards, two computer tablets, a baize table and 17, 080 baht.

 

Naris said that his operation to raid gambling dens in the resort would continue.

 

Source: TNews

 

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[KittenKong]

45 minutes ago, webfact said:

Many of those arrested were women and old folk who couldn't run away.

 

Priceless.

[Thaiwrath]

55 minutes ago, webfact said:

Many of those arrested were women and old folk who couldn't run away.

 

Makes me feel a lot safer living here ! 

[Moonmoon]

Hits Jackpot, 17,080 Baht....... errr Well Done....

[gandalf12]

I can now sleep tonight knowing such criminals have been caught.

[Justgrazing]

5 hours ago, KittenKong said:

 

Priceless.

Hahaha .. My sentiments exactly .. 

[thhMan]

Its just children being bullies.... welcome to this stupid place

[chopper23]

But it's a Casino, they said?

[wanderluster]

if they are not allowed to arrest rich criminals at least they can go after poor people.  the law is the law. just depends om how much money and statis u have

 

[jaywalker]

22 hours ago, webfact said:

He had received a report from military chief Suwit Laklang that the casino, already raided by the army in April, was continuing to operate without fear.

 

Evidence gathered pointed to the operation having a turnover of 14 million baht, he said. And it was in operation 24 hours a day with a steady stream of visitors.

However.....we didn't see it, as they were paying us off.

 

They quit paying us, so we decided to raid it.

Edited August 5, 2017 by jaywalker

[garbolino]

 with a raid on a casino operating openly at Jomtien beach.  so WHERE WAS/IS THIS    vegas style casino???

 

[JSixpack]

6 hours ago, wanderluster said:

if they are not allowed to arrest rich criminals at least they can go after poor people.  the law is the law. just depends om how much money and statis u have

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It's well to discourage poor people from gambling, esp. unregulated gambling where it's more likely they're being cheated. I've seen Thais lose so much in fixed games of pok deng they had to borrow money and pawn their household appliances. So in this case the police may be doing these people a favor. Think about whether you'd want your Thai mother-in-law there.

[superal]

And recently there have been prominent posts here suggesting that the Pattaya & Jomtien areas could be a serious property investment / the Thai Macau equivalent ,  as reformation on the Thai gambling laws was being considered . That looks very unlikely given the current army stance .

[jaywalker]

2 hours ago, JSixpack said:

 

It's well to discourage poor people from gambling, esp. unregulated gambling where it's more likely they're being cheated. I've seen Thais lose so much in fixed games of pok deng they had to borrow money and pawn their household appliances. So in this case the police may be doing these people a favor. Think about whether you'd want your Thai mother-in-law there.

Totally agree, in that gambling is idiotic.

 

I mean, it's a lot of fun when you play with nickels & dimes or Monopoly money.

 

Why people want to bet large sums is beyond me?

[mikebell]

On 04/08/2017 at 9:43 AM, webfact said:

Naris said that his operation to raid gambling dens in the resort would continue.

'It's a nice little earner and keeps us from meeting up with some real criminals.'  Naris continued, 'I won't rest till all these dangerous grannies are behind bars and my pension pot is full.'

[fakename]

I sure hated to give SixPack a like on this, but thats twice today I agreed with him. Whats the world coming too!

[superal]

The picture speaks a thousand words and in this case it spells total embarrassment for all concerned . I feel so sorry for the small time gamblers having a bit of fun and what a total waste of government resources ,  they aint gonna stop it any time soon , bit like the oldest profession in the world , time for a change maybe ?    Where i stay , not too far from the Chong Chom border crossing there are cavalcades of Thai tourist buses going to the casinos every day and I would imagine is the same at other borders .

            So why is it that other Buddhist countries allow gambling ?    The Thai government are missing out on big revenues , plus why the conflict that horse racing and the lottery are allowed ?      When is this country going to catch up on the fundamentals  ? I cannot see any logical reason not to  .