Two Brits arrested, one fugitive and an illegal cosmetician
published : 3 Sep 2024 at 15:17
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Wassayos Ngamkham
Police have arrested two UK nationals, one a fugitive from British law who became a boxer in Phuket and the other for illegally running a cosmetic clinic on Koh Phangan.
Ben Ransom, 28, was taken into custody at a restaurant in Phuket on Monday.
Police said Mr Ransom was wanted in Britain on charges of drug trafficking. He arrived in Thailand two years ago and fought in Phuket using the ring name “Billy”.
Mr Ransom denied all charges, but would be extradited, police said.
On Koh Phangan in Surat Thani province, police on Monday arrested Thomas Foley, 42, at a rented house for illegally operating a clinic, selling medicine, possessing unregistered medicine and working without a permit. It is alleged he illegally provided cosmetic "filler" injections.
Police seized cosmetic products worth about 3.5 million baht.
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Vocabulary
- charge : an official statement accusing someone of committing a crime - ข้อกล่าวหา
- clinic: a place where a person goes to receive medical treatment -
- cosmetic: involving substances, treatments, etc. that which are intended to improve the appearance of your face or body - ซึ่งทำให้สวยงาม
- custody: the state of being in prison or under police control, especially while waiting for trial - การกักขัง, การคุมขัง
- denied (verb): said that something is not true or did not happen - ปฏิเสธ
- extradite: to officially send back someone who has been accused or found guilty of a crime to the country where the crime was committed for a trial - ส่งตัวกลับ
- fugitive (noun): someone who has been accused of doing something illegal and is trying to avoid being caught by the police - ผู้หลบหนี
- injection: putting a liquid, especially a drug, into a person's body using a needle and a syringe - การฉีดยา
- trafficking: dealing in illegal goods, like drugs, weapons or in illegally moving humans or animals from one place to another - การค้าสิ่งที่ผิดกฎหมาย
