PATTAYA: A significant drug suspect desired on 6 arrest warrants in southern Thailand was jailed in Pattaya on Saturday after 5 years on the run.
Suriya Monchatin, alias “Lek Thung Tune”, was jailed quickly driving his cars and truck to park at Jomtien beach in Bang Lamung district. Cops consequently browsed his home and discovered a 9mm handgun and some bullets.
The 51-year-old local of Thung Tune district in Nakhon Si Thammarat had actually handled to avert arrest given that 2012. He was the topic of 6 warrants connected to drug cases, 5 released by the Thung Tune court and the other by a court in Krabi.
Pol Col Apichai Krobphet, chief of Pattaya authorities, stated Mr Suriya had actually gone on the run and later on transferred to Pattaya. Cops located him and discovered that he offered products at the Rattanakorn Thepprasit market in the beach city.
Officers stated Mr Suriya admitted to having actually purchased an unregistered handgun. He likewise confessed he was associated with the illegal drug sell the South however stated he had actually cleaned his hands of drugs given that he transferred to Pattaya a year earlier.
He was kept in authorities custody at Pattaya police headquarters prior to being turned over to authorities in Thung Tune.
An officer browses the bag of drug suspect Suriya Monchatin following his arrest in Pattaya on Saturday. (Image by Chaiyot Pupattanapong)
