Phuket casinos raided, 87 arrested
published : 1 Jul 2020 at 11:05
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Achadthaya Chuenniran
PHUKET: Two casinos were raided and 87 gamblers arrested on Tuesday.
The raids followed complaints of gambling dens operating around the clock in the middle of the island.
The first casino, raided about 3.30pm, was operating in a building with parking space for motorcycles and up to 30 cars.
Officials arrested 45 gamblers - 30 men and 15 women - and seized 62,420 baht and a one-baht weight gold necklace.
About the same time, a second team raided another casino in Thalang district. A total of 42 people - 22 men and 20 women - were arrested and 64,260 baht seized.
All were charged with illegal gambling and violating the emergency decree.
Vocabulary
- around the clock: throughout the whole day and night; 24 hours - ทั้งวันทั้งคืน
- baht-weight (noun): a unit of weight measurement for Gold in Thailand where 1 Baht is equal to 15.244 grams in raw form or 15.16 grams when it sold as jewellery -
- casino: a building where gambling games, especially roulette and card games are played for money - บ่อนการพนัน
- complaint: when someone says that something is wrong or not satisfactory - การร้องเรียน
- emergency decree (noun): a situation where the government takes on special powers in a dangerous situation and the rights of the people are often limited in some way - ประกาศภาวะฉุกเฉิน
- gambler: a person who risks money on a card game, horse race, etc - นักการพนัน,นักเสี่ยงโชค
- gambling den (noun): an illegal gambling place, a place where people gamble illegally - บ่อนการพนัน
- raid: to use force to enter a place suddenly in order to arrest people or search for something such as illegal weapons or drugs - บุกเข้าจับ, เข้าตรวจค้น
- seize (verb): to take something using force - ยึด, จับกุม
- violate: to do something that is against a law, rule or agreement - ฝ่าฝืน, ละเมิด
- Keywords
- arrested
- raided
- emergency decree
- gambling dens
