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PHUKET: A national park staff member who has been selling marijuana to tourists north of Phuket ''for years'' was arrested yesterday in a sting operation.
Agents of Takuapa district chief Manit Pleantong nabbed Katachai Panboontong, 36, on the outskirts of Khao Lak as he tried to make a sale about 6pm.
He looked tearful, video showed, as officers bundled him into a pickup to be taken for further questioning.
Khun Katachai was a member of the staff at Khao Lak National Park, south of the popular holiday destination in Phang Nga province.
Inside a fabric belt around his waist officers found 14,972 baht in cash and 200 grams of marijuana. A small amount of kratom - the illicit natural leaf - was found in his Yamaha Fino.
''Khun Katachai said he had been selling marijuana to tourists for years,'' one of the officers told Phuketwan ''He usually sold reefers [marijuana cigarettes] at 1000 baht each.''
District officer Manit has won high praise and the Phuketwan Person of the year Award for 2014 for sparking a grassroots movement against the human trafficking of Rohingya and Bangladeshis along the Andaman coast of Thailand, where trading in people had become an industry second only to tourism.
A 24-hour human trafficking checkpoint manned by volunteers on the main road north of the town of Takuapa has forced traffickers and drug smugglers to consider other routes. Local police now join the volunteers in manning the checkpoint.
Tourists used to taking small amounts of illegal drugs without repercussions are sometimes unaware of Thailand's zero tolerance to marijuana and other ''party'' drugs.
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He should go to jail for selling the crappiest pot ever grown for 1000 baht a gram.
Posted by The Mary Jane Mare on July 21, 2015 11:00