Gambling den raided at Pattaya hotel
published : 29 Dec 2021 at 14:30
writer: R May
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Chaiyot Pupattanapong
Forty-two people were arrested for gambling at a four-star hotel in Pattaya Tuesday night.
Bearing a court-issued search warrant and led by Pol Col Kulachart Kulchai, Pattaya police chief, officers searched a room at Le Vernissage Hotel in tambon Nong Prue, Bang Lamung district at about 8.30pm.
They detained 42 people playing baccarat, including the card dealers. None of the detained was wearing a face mask.
Gambling equipment seized as evidence included tables and card sets along with gambling chips with total marked value of about 500 million baht.
Police also seized three guns from the dealers. Two closed-circuit cameras installed in the room were impounded for examination.
All of the arrested were held for further legal proceedings.
Vocabulary
- baccarat: a card game in which players hold two or three cards each and bet on whose cards will have the highest number left highest number left - การเล่นไพ่แบ็กคาระ
- bear: to show something; to carry something so that it can be seen - แสดง
- closed-circuit camera: a camera for a television system that works within a limited area - กล้องวงจรปิด
- court: the place where legal trials take place and where crimes, etc. are judged - ศาล
- detained: kept in a place and not allowed to leave - กักตัว ควบคุมตัวหรือฝากขัง
- equipment: the things that are needed for a particular purpose or activity - อุปกรณ์, เครื่องมือ
- gambling den (noun): an illegal gambling place, a place where people gamble illegally - บ่อนการพนัน
- impounded: taken away by the police - ยึดไว้เป็นของกลาง
- issue: to officially give out - ออก
- search warrant: an official document that allows the police to search a building - หมายค้น
- seized: taken away by force or official power - ถูกยึกครอง
