Dozens test positive for drugs in Chon Buri pub raid
published : 17 Jun 2024 at 08:30
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
Dozens of people tested positive for drugs after a raid on a popular pub in Chon Buri early Saturday. Nine people, including a pub guard, were arrested for selling drugs.
A 150-strong team including police officers and officials raided Nasa Club at about 1.30am.
About 400 customers were inside the pub, many of them dancing to music at the time. Some tried to run away, tossing sachets of drugs on the floor or running into the restrooms to flush drugs away.
All customers were asked to take urine tests. Officials said that 105 people — 61 men and 44 women — tested positive for drug use. All were arrested.
Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said drugs had been found in the systems of 157 people — 68 men and 89 women. Eight pubgoers were below the legal drinking age of 20, he added.
Eight people were arrested on charges of selling drugs.
The owner of the pub, identified only as Ek, will face charges and the pub would face closure for five years, police said.
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Vocabulary
- charge : an official statement accusing someone of committing a crime - ข้อกล่าวหา
- closure (noun): the shutting down of a school, factory or other business or service - การปิด
- dozens (noun): large numbers of; a lot of people or things (1 dozen = 12) - มากมาย, เป็นจำนวนมาก
- face: to (likely or possibly) have to deal with a problem - เผชิญ, พบ, เจอ
- flush: to make water pass through a toilet - กดชักโครก
- interior minister: the minister with responsibility over the Royal Thai Police, local administrations, internal security, citizenship, disaster management, land management, issuing national identity cards and public works - รัฐมนตรีว่าการกระทรวงมหาดไทย
- official: someone with an important position in an organisation - เจ้าหน้าที่
- 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
- raid (noun): using force or legal authority to enter a place suddenly in order to arrest people or search for something such as illegal weapons or drugs - การเข้าตรวจค้น
- system (noun): a human or an animal body, or a part of it, when it is being thought of as the organs and processes that make it function - ระบบ
- toss: to throw something lightly or carelessly - โยน
- urine: liquid waste passed from your body - น้ำปัสสาวะ
- Keywords
- Pub raid
- illicit drugs
- Chon Buri
- Nasa Club
