Immigration arrest two Iranians in Walking Street for illegal activities

 

Image: Daily News

 

Chonburi immigration arrested two Iranian nationals in Walking Street, South Pattaya, after a raid in the early hours of Friday morning.

Daily News said they were working in the dark crime underbelly of the resort.

Taken in on overstay were Youseffi Hassan, 33, and Balalee Hamidresa, 29.

Immigration told the media that the former was involved in supplying drugs of various kinds to tourists while the latter was tampering with passports for Arab nationals enabling them to go on to third countries.

They were arrested in Soi Yen Sabai at 2am and detained.

 

Source:  Daily News

 

 

 

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More quality tourists.. All of a sudden it seems the euro mongers weren't so bad after all...

There's ALOT of illegal activity in Soi Muslim.

So they were charged with overstay but the OP mentions nothing about drug charges or passport forgery charges. I suppose it is outside the domain of Immi Police but would like to assume they did refer these two to their colleagues. 

"Daily News said they were working in the dark crime underbelly of the resort."

 

If they already know it's the dark crime underbelly of the resort, it should have been wrapped-up long ago!

42 minutes ago, docshock13 said:

So they were charged with overstay but the OP mentions nothing about drug charges or passport forgery charges. I suppose it is outside the domain of Immi Police but would like to assume they did refer these two to their colleagues. 

Probably they are suspected of those crimes and they are being investigated.

13 minutes ago, Moti24 said:

"Daily News said they were working in the dark crime underbelly of the resort."

 

If they already know it's the dark crime underbelly of the resort, it should have been wrapped-up long ago!

They probably thought the reports were all based on fake news.

Good job by police...

2 hours ago, Pdaz said:

More quality tourists.. All of a sudden it seems the euro mongers weren't so bad after all...

Someone remind me why we have the 90day checks.

So if they were working "in the dark crime underbelly" then by association they were working alongside their RTP colleagues.

31 minutes ago, masuk said:

Someone remind me why we have the 90day checks.

Beats me.  I suppose they are only any good if you turn up. Also only an inconvenience for those of us who report.  The bad guys have nothing to complain about.

51 minutes ago, masuk said:

Someone remind me why we have the 90day checks.

So they can screw more cash out of you.

16 minutes ago, wakeupplease said:

So they can screw more cash out of you.

My 90 day reports are free .

1 minute ago, toofarnorth said:

My 90 day reports are free .

Same here.   I really miss the online report though.  That suited me well.

Don't stop using your phone just because you are arrested by the BIB!

Illegal activities in Waking St. ...Surely not , disgraceful !

23 minutes ago, toofarnorth said:

My 90 day reports are free .

No border runs then Lucky You.

6 hours ago, BifBaker said:

There's ALOT of illegal activity in Soi Muslim.

Nja, not all correct. There is a lot of illegal activity in Pattaya percentually compared to the amount of people living in the city. I will take a wild guess and say that it actually compared in that way is one of the top ten cities in the world. For everyone that refuse to face reality, feel free to disagree.

Talking about Walking street all these sales people with silly alcohol drinking signs flyers  in their hands infront these bars are they gone?

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7 hours ago, toofarnorth said:

Illegal activities in Waking St. ...Surely not , disgraceful !

Illegal activities by Overstayers ...  Surely not, never happens !

I'm waiting for the far left to declare that most crimes are committed by western farangs and all law abiding holiday makers from Africa & Middle East are here to spend multiples of money!

What visa were they on that they weren't arrested on overstay?

On 8/19/2017 at 0:40 AM, Pdaz said:

More quality tourists.. All of a sudden it seems the euro mongers weren't so bad after all...

Pdaz the whole matters comes to square one.  there is no proper monitoring of over stayers who are apparently one of the major sources of problems.

1 hour ago, sahibji said:

Pdaz the whole matters comes to square one.  there is no proper monitoring of over stayers who are apparently one of the major sources of problems.

True. There is little enforcement  of any sort. Plus in their bid to attract more tourists from developing countries they have opened the doors to more criminals and desperate types who aren't on any international criminal database. If there was more vetting they wouldn't get in to Thailand in the first place.  20 yrs ago Thailand was an 'exotic' destination mostly well healed tourists from Western Europe.

Now as flights are cheaper and people are able to travel the whole World's troublemakers can afford to come and visit. Thailand's bumbling immigration and Police have no way of knowing who is good and who is bad.

A couple of troll posts have been removed

Looks like Thailand is becoming a haven for low budget third world tourists who never leave


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22 hours ago, jmccarty said:

Don't stop using your phone just because you are arrested by the BIB!

yep - one would assume, the first action would be to confiscate the phones, so they cannot warn others that it is not a normal bar raid, but a targeted operation ...

On 8/19/2017 at 3:50 AM, BifBaker said:

There's ALOT of illegal activity in Soi Muslim.

To me, that is one of the areas to avoid in Pattaya.  Too cloistered and too catering to one group

Another example of "good guys in and bad guys out"

On 8/20/2017 at 5:04 AM, elgenon said:

What visa were they on that they weren't arrested on overstay?

 

Hard to tell since they were in the business of tampering with passports...  In fact, is anyone really sure they're Iranians?